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
Myth and reality: a review of Bonaparte and the British prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon Jason D. FrostPages: 231-233 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1178686
Narratively framing emergent identities in post-agreement societies: patterns of the Northern Irish identity within the provincial media Owen FentonPages: 235-257 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1212000
‘Warriors’ and ‘Mighty Warriors’: national football team nicknames and the politics and politicisation of national identity in Zimbabwe Oliver NyambiPages: 259-276 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1218452
Australian national identity: empirical research since 1998 Catherine Austin & Farida FozdarPages: 277-298 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1244520
Religion as nationalism: the religious nationalism of American Christian Zionists Tristan SturmPages: 299-319 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1255187
‘The orange was dried up and shriveled’: oranges and the crisis of nationalism in Ghassan Kanafani and Smilansky Yizhar Mohammed HamdanPages: 321-336 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1256981
Book Reviews
The real politics of the horn of Africa: money, war and the business of power Peter ChonkaPages: 337-339 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173830
Fútbol, Jews and the making of Argentina Tony CollinsPages: 340-341 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1173831
The Risorgimento revisited: nationalism and culture in nineteenth-century Italy Owain WrightPages: 341-343 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2016.1191126