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.
Original Articles
Peoples and nations: cultural and political collective self-identification Aleksandar Radaković Pages: 109–126 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1696763
Social patriotism: populist glue for a multinational democracy Antonia María Ruiz Jiménez, Daniel Romero Portillo & Luis Navarro Ardoy Pages: 127–148 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1735326
The portal ‘Nationalist’ as the nutshell of recent Serbian nationalism Srđan Mladenov Jovanović Pages: 149–162 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1733511
The Kurdish genocide in Iraq: the Security-Anfal and the Identity-Anfal Sherko Kirmanj & Aram Rafaat Pages: 163–183 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1746250
The impact of symbolic boundaries on perceptions of relations between Japan and South Korea Karina V. Korostelina & Yuji Uesugi Pages: 185–204 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1723513
Book Reviews
From belonging to belief: modern secularisms and the construction of religion in Kyrgyzstan by Julie McBrien, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, xv+232 pp., $ 28.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8229-6508-4 Adeeb Khalid Pages: 205–206 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1728943
Football and national identities in Spain. The strange death of Don Quixote by Alejandro Quiroga, Houndmills and New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, x + 246 pp., €93.59 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-35540-8 Xavier Ramon Pages: 206–208 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1687981
Sports culture in Latin American history edited by David Sheinin, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015, 236 pp., $29.95 (paperback), ISBN 13 978 0 8229 6337 0 Mark Biram Pages: 208–210 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2019.1687979
The critical surf studies reader edited by Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Durham, Duke University Press, 2017, 463 pp., $31.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6972-1 Jeeshan Gazi Pages: 210–212 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1761003
Beyond Settler Time. Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-determination by Mark Rifkin, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2017, 277 pp., $26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-8223-6297-5 Gunlög Fur Pages: 212–215 / DOI: 10.1080/14608944.2020.1769258