Author's Keywords: CITIZENSHIP, NATIONAL IDENTITY, MILITARY SERVICE, ARMED FORCES, SOCIAL IDENTITY, NATIONALISM	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
Association: Name: International Society of Political Psychology URL: http://ispp.org
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Gibson, Stephen. "Serving the country: Military service and national representation amongst soldiers and civilians in England." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon USA, Jul 04, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p204705_index.html>

Gibson, S. , 2007-07-04 "Serving the country: Military service and national representation amongst soldiers and civilians in England." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon USA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p204705_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Social psychological research on general issues pertaining to national representation and identity is frequently justified in relation to the specific case of the role of national identity in international conflict and war. It is therefore somewhat surprising that little research has in fact explicitly addressed the relationship between the self, national identity and military service. In this paper I explore how a sample of civilians and British army soldiers in England construe the ways in which attachment to, or identification with, the 'nation' may be implicated in military service. Using qualitative analysis of semi-structured interviews, it is shown that whereas soldiers typically oriented to 'serving the country' as an activity which did not depend upon a heightened sense of national identification or sentiment, civilians frequently attributed such sentiment to soldiers in order to explain why they engaged in military service. Furthermore, a trend is identified whereby civilians often represented 'country' in terms of government, such that 'serving the country' was essentially treated as 'serving the government'. In contrast, soldiers were more likely to employ a representation of military service as involving a commitment to country-as-monarchy. These findings are discussed in relation to the political and ideological heritage of the British army, as well as in the context of the war in Iraq. Moreover, it is argued that approaches which treat national categories exclusively in terms of social identity may not be able to capture the complexity of ordinary accounts of military service and 'nation' or 'country'.

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