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
De-politicization of the partisan forces in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq Hawre Hasan Hama & Othman Ali Pages: 111–131 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1573809
Forging Ukrainian national identity through remembrance of World War II Lina Klymenko Pages: 133–150 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1590810
Orientalism and Russian speaking minority regions in Europe: representing Narva Heidi Erbsen Pages: 151–172 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1600485
Towards pluralistic and grassroots national identity: a study of national identity representation by the Kurdish diaspora on social media Jiyar Hossein Aghapouri Pages: 173–192 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1601172
Circumcising the body: negotiating difference and belonging in Germany Irit Dekel, Bernhard Forchtner & Ibrahim Efe Pages: 193–211 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1603218
Commentary
Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War Michael Seidman Pages: 213–215 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1618101
Book Reviews
Tropical Riffs: Latin America & the politics of jazz by Jason Borge, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2018, 280 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-6990-5/$99.95 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-8223-6987-5 E. Taylor Atkins Pages: 217–218 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1617950
The victorious counterrevolution: the nationalist effort in the Spanish Civil War by Michael Seidman, London and Wisconsin, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011, 352 + xiii pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-02-992-4964-9 Pedro García-Guirao Pages: 218–222 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1687171
Retracted Article
Retracted Article: The victorious counterrevolution: the nationalist effort in the Spanish Civil War Pedro García-Guirao Pages: I–IV / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1563986
Retraction
Statement of Retraction: Book Review of The victorious counterrevolution: the nationalist effort in the Spanish Civil War, by Michael Seidman Pages: 223–223 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1687179