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
Ethnodoxy, national exceptionalism, and xenophobia: a case study of contemporary Russia David BarryPages: 223-239 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1431876
Terrorism and the discursive construction of national identity in France Ariane BogainPages: 241-265 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1431877
Quebeckers and Québécois. Evolution and changes in identity and national habitus in Quebec (1960–2016) Pablo GioriPages: 267-285 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1425292
Representations of inclusiveness in social assistance programmes of the 10th Malaysia Plan, 2011–2015 Mary Varghese & Edmund Terence GomezPages: 287-303 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1463515
Creating and re-creating the nation of Taiwan: representations of the history of the Japanese colonial era in history textbooks and teachers’ discourses Ming-li YaoPages: 305-320 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1443324
Book Reviews
European nations, explaining their formation Sam PrykePages: 321-323 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1504463
Patriots against fashion. Clothing and nationalism in Europe’s age of revolutions Kimberly Chrisman-CampbellPages: 323-325 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1504464
Ethnic cleansing and the European Union. An interdisciplinary approach to security, memory and ethnography Michael SchwartzPages: 325-328 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1563991