National Identities explores the correlation/mapping between identity, people, state and nation, and examines the complexities of how national identities are created, represented and adopted in any period from antiquity to the current day, and from any geographical location. The focus of the journal is on identity, on how cultural factors (language, architecture, music, gender, religion, the media, sport, encounters with ‘the other’ etc.) and political factors (state forms, wars, boundaries) contribute to the formation and expression of national identities and on how these factors have been shaped and changed over time. The historical significance of ‘nation’ in political and cultural terms is considered in relationship to other important and in some cases countervailing forms of identity such as religion, region, tribe or class.
The variety of viewpoints published in the journal engenders a multifaceted understanding of national identity, and the journal therefore welcomes papers from a wide range of disciplines, including literature, history, geography, religion, sociology, and architecture among others. Comparative perspectives are encouraged, and the journal features regular review essays as well as book reviews.
Articles
Globalization and global identification: a comparative multilevel analysis Gal ArielyPages: 125–141 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2015.1136610
On Bradman’s bat: Australian sporting heroes Jed Donoghue & Bruce TranterPages: 143–156 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1168792
National identity and attitudes towards immigration in Australia Ian McAllisterPages: 157–173 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1206069
The ‘isolated ethnics’ and ‘everyday ethnics’: region, identity, and the second-generation Midwest Asian American experience Monica M. TrieuPages: 175–195 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1211998
Constructions of identity, belonging and exclusion in the democratic welfare state Clara SandelindPages: 197–218 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1211999
Book Reviews
‘Goodbye, Spain?’ The question of independence for Catalonia Carlos UxóPages: 219–221 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173825
Soviet mass festivals, 1917–1991 Heather CampbellPages: 221–224 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173826
The politics of constitutional nationalism in Northern Ireland, 1932–1970: between grievance and reconciliation Jason FrostPages: 225–226 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173827
Disdain, distrust and dissolution: the surge of support for independence in Catalonia Kathryn CrameriPages: 226–228 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173828
Beyond imported magic: essays on science, technology, and society in Latin America Mary Jane C. ParmentierPages: 228–230 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173829