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
The symbolic mosaic: an empirical typology of national symbolic webs and its effect on vote choice in CanadaYannick Dufresne, Charles Tessier, Alexandre Blanchet & Mickael TemporãoPages: 329–345 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1463516
Imagined communities in Eoin McNamee’s ‘Resurrection Man’ and ‘The Ultras’Anthony MayPages: 347–363 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1471456
A near-existential dilemma: the European national template, the accommodation of diversity and the nationalist backlashUlf HedetoftPages: 365–378 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1514594
Building on legacy and tradition: commemorations of 1956 in HungaryHeino Nyyssönen & Jussi MetsäläPages: 379–393 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1490256
Alexander Pushkin in Bessarabia: literature and identity politics in the peripheryAnastasia FelcherPages: 395–415 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1490257
In from the side: exile international rugby union players in Britain, blood ties and national identitiesGabriel Carroll & Alan BairnerPages: 417–433 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1491542
Book Reviews
Commercial nationalism and tourism: selling the national storyedited by Leanne White, Bristol, Channel View Publications, 2017, 299 pp., £34.95 (paperback), ISBN 13 978 1 84541 588 4Philip LongPages: 435–436 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1504466
The lasting war: society and identity in Britain, France and Germany after 1945edited by Monica Riera and Gavin Schaffer, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, xii & 277 pp., ₤65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978 0 230 50671 8Enrico HeitzerPages: 436–438 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1505585
Inventing the myth, political passions and the Ulster Protestant Imaginationby Connal Parr, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, 263 pp., £55.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780198791591James DingleyPages: 438–441 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1479555