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.
Introduction
Introduction Andrey Makarychev and Triin Vihalemm Pages: 217-220 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1858773
Articles
Europe's frontline of information wars: Russophone communities in Estonia and Germany Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk Pages: 221-238 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1634038
Factors affecting willingness to fight for a country in the Latvian and Russian-speaking communities in Latvia Ieva Bērziņa and Uldis Zupa Pages: 239-252 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1851668
Sense-making of conflicting political news among Baltic Russian-speaking audiences Triin Vihalemm and Jānis Juzefovičs Pages: 253-275 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1723512
Redrawing symbolic boundaries after Maidan: identity strategies among Russian-speaking Ukrainians Olena Nedozhogina Pages: 277-295 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1642862
Book Reviews
Making Uzbekistan. Nation, empire and revolution in the early USSR by Adeed Khalid, Ithaca and London, Cornwell University Press, 2015, ix + 415 pp., $39.95 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 8014 5409 7 Gulrano Ataeva Pages: 297-299 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1788317
Why nationalism by Yael Tamir, Princeton and Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2019, 224 pp., £22.00 (hardback), ISBN 97-806-9-119-010-5 Krzysztof Jaskułowski Pages: 299-301 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1788314