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.
Editorials
Architecture, Nation, Difference Samir Pandya Pages: 379–380 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1812823
Articles
Architecture in National Identities: a critical review Samir Pandya Pages: 381–393 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1812825
‘Accounting for the hostel for 'coloured colonial seamen' in London's East End, 1942–1949’ Sarah A. Milne Pages: 395–421 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1600484
‘A place for the unexpected, integrated into the city structure’: universities as agents of cosmopolitan urbanism Clare Melhuish Pages: 423–440 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2018.1498472
Affective disorder: architectural design for complex national identities Samir Pandya Pages: 441–462 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1812826
The mosque and the nation Shahed Saleem Pages: 463–470 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1811515
Architecture and Faux-nationalism: reflections on a remark made by the British architectural historian Gavin Stamp about the German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Victoria Watson Pages: 471–478 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1803576