The making of English national identity
In: Cambridge cultural social studies
In: Cambridge cultural social studies
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 469-487
ISSN: 1469-8129
In: Theory and society: renewal and critique in social theory, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 119-143
ISSN: 1573-7853
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 469-487
ISSN: 1354-5078
The current interest in Englishness and English national identity, spurred partly by parliamentary devolution to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, has been accompanied by calls for an English parliament and even the promotion of a robust English nationalism. This article argues that this is a mistaken direction for the English. English traditions habe been non-national and even supra-national. English identities have been especially bound up with Britain and Britishness. An England without Britain is hard to conceive, and would be impolitic to pursue. Survey evidence shows continuing Britishness among the English, with scant support for an English parliament or English independence. The expressions of English nationalism remain relatively muted. 'England for the English' is neither a realistic nor a sensible strategy. (Nations and Nationalism)
World Affairs Online
In: Indian journal of public administration, Band 56, Heft 2, S. 298-315
ISSN: 2457-0222
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 469-488
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Scottish affairs, Band 73 (First Serie, Heft 1, S. 102-105
ISSN: 2053-888X
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 823-825
ISSN: 1469-8129
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 823-824
ISSN: 1354-5078
In: Journal of civil society, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 15-30
ISSN: 1744-8697
In: Revista internacional de filosofía política, Heft 29, S. 65-80
ISSN: 1132-9432
The Western utopia has it roots in both classical & Judaeo-Christian thought. From the Greeks came the model of the ideal city, based on reason; from Jews & Christians, the idea of deliverance through a messiah & the culmination of history in the millennium. The Greek conception placed utopia in an ideal space, the Christian conception in an ideal time. The modem utopian tradition, dating from Thomas More's Utopia (1516), drew upon both traditions & added something distinctive of its own. Following More, the utopia has developed as a literary genre whose closest relative is the novel. This, I argue, is its greatest strength. As compared with abstract speculation on "the good society" in traditional social & political thought, the literary utopia -- as practiced by such writers as Edward Bellamy, William Morris, & H. G Wells -- is a "concrete utopia," in which writers are forced to confront all the details of daily life in the ideal society It is this that allowed utopia -- and its mirror image, the anti-utopia or dystopia -- to develop as a distinct genre, separate from other ways of thinking about the ideal society. Adapted from the source document.
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 153-155
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 163-164
ISSN: 1354-5078