Much scholarly writing on states and state boundaries assumes that these form or at least condition the bounds of identity. The 'institutionalisation' process is said to be one where the boundaries of the state become the ...
Emotion research has recently begun to focus on the relationship between social
identities and group based emotion. The current paper reports on a large scale
study of intra and intergroup emotions and their relationship ...
Social identification processes can be seen as the basis of the conflict in Northern Ireland. During the conflict it can be argued that preferred social and political identities became increasingly oppositional and ...