Wallwork Jodi, Dixon John A
Department of Psychology, University College Worcester, UK.
Br J Soc Psychol. 2004 Mar;43(Pt 1):21-39. doi: 10.1348/014466604322915962.
This paper explores an accepted but under researched feature of national categories: their complex relationship with social constructions of place. We argue that social psychological work on national identification and mobilization would benefit from closer attention to this relationship. In order to develop this argument, we analyse a series of newspaper accounts published on behalf of the Countryside Alliance, a coalition formed to preserve rural 'ways of life' in the UK and, more specifically, to defend extant practices of hunting. Applying a discourse analytic method, we show how the Alliance has exploited the rhetoric of place in order to portray the preservation of hunting as an issue of national significance. By associating British identity with the 'rural idyll' of the English countryside, the organization has appealed to a place construction in which hunting and its associated activities become cast as essential expressions of the national character. Building on relevant work in geography and discursive psychology, we trace some wider implications of this process for social psychological research on category construction, reification and collective mobilization.
它们与地方社会建构之间的复杂关系。我们认为，关于国家认同与动员的社会心理学研究若能更密切关注这种关系将受益匪浅。为了阐述这一观点，我们分析了一系列代表乡村联盟发表的报纸报道，该联盟是为保护英国乡村“生活方式”而组建的一个联盟，更具体地说是为捍卫现存的狩猎行为而成立的。运用话语分析方法，我们展示了该联盟如何利用地方修辞，将狩猎的保护描绘成一个具有国家重要性的问题。通过将英国身份与英格兰乡村的“田园风光”联系起来，该组织诉诸了一种地方建构，在这种建构中，狩猎及其相关活动被视为民族性格的重要体现。基于地理学和话语心理学的相关研究，我们追溯了这一过程对范畴建构、具体化和集体动员的社会心理学研究的一些更广泛影响。
