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This chapter outlines the purpose and the structure of the book. It highlights the wealth of literature on nations and nationalism and comparative dearth of scholarship on national identity, and outlines the need for an interdisciplinary, qualitative analysis of the phenomenon of national identity in a ‘stateless nation’ context. It details the structure and central themes of the subsequent chapter, from literature review, methodology and data analysis framework, case selection, empirical analysis and concluding remarks. It further identifies the innovative features of the research, showcasing its original contribution to the state of the art of understanding national identity and its politicisation in both a broader context and that specific to Wales and the Basque Country.
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Frederick Barth, ed., Ethnic Groups and Boundaries (Boston: Little, Brown, 1969).
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Richard Jenkins, Social Identity , 3rd edn. (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
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David McCrone, The Sociology of Nationalism (London and New York: Routledge, 1998).
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Bhikhu Parekh, ‘The Concept of National Identity’, New Community, 21.2 (1995).
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Steve Fenton, ‘Indifference Towards National Identity: What Young Adults Think About Being English and British’, Nations and Nationalism , 13.2 (2007), 321–339.
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Michael Billig, Banal Nationalism (London: Sage, 1995).
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James D. Fearon and David D. Laitin, ‘Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity’, International Organisation, 54.4 (2000), 845–877.
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Paul Brass, ed., Ethnic Groups and the State (London and Sydney: Croom Helm, 1985); Paul R. Brass, Ethnicity and Nationalism : Theory and Comparison (London: Sage, 1991).
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Onwuegbuzie, Dickinson, Leech, and Zoran, ‘Toward More Rigour in Focus Group Research: A New Framework for Collecting and Analysing Focus Group Data’, 2.
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George Kamberlis and Greg Dimitriadis, Focus Groups : From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), 37.
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Jennie Munday, ‘Identity in Focus: The Use of Focus Groups to Study the Construction of Collective Identity’, Sociology , 40.1 (2006), 95.
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George Kamberlis and Greg Dimitriadis, Focus Groups : From Structured Interviews to Collective Conversations (London and New York: Routledge, 2013), 33.
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Kitzinger, ‘Qualitative Research: Introducing Focus Groups’, 2; Alan Bryman, Social Research Methods, 4th edn. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 503.
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Janet Smithson, ‘Using and Analysing Focus Groups: Limitations and Possibilities’, International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 3.2 (2000), 116.
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Pranee Liamputtong, Focus Group Methodology: Principles and Practice (London: Sage, 2011), 32.
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Catherine Cassell and Gillian Symon, eds., Qualitative Methods in Organisational Research: A Practical Guide (London: Sage, 1994), 16.
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Jennifer Mason, Qualitative Researching (London: Sage, 2002), 65.
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Alan Bryman, Social Research Methods, 4th edn. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 470.
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Graham Day and Andrew Thompson, Theorising Nationalism (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
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Fiona Bowie, ‘Wales from Within: Conflicting Interpretations of Welsh Identity’, in Inside European Identities by Sharon Macdonald, ed. (Providence, RI and Oxford: Berg, 1993).
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Jonathan Bradbury and Rhys Andrews, ‘State Devolution and National Identity: Continuity and Change in the Politics of Britishness and Welshness in Wales’, Parliamentary Affairs, 3.2 (2010), 229–249.
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Williams, S. (2019). Introduction. In: Rethinking Stateless Nations and National Identity in Wales and the Basque Country. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91409-1_1
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