Ruling tactics

Methods of promoting everyday nationalism, how they serve rulers and how to oppose them

Brian Martin

Sparsnäs, Sweden: Irene Publishing, 2017
261 pages.
ISBN 978-91-88061-17-1


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Contents and acknowledgements

 

1. Introduction

1. Introduction

2. Moral foundations

2. Moral foundations

3. Nationalism

3. Nationalism

4. Crime

4. Crime

5. Sport

5. Sport

6. Spying and surveillance

6. Spying and surveillance

7. Terrorism

7. Terrorism

8. Language

8. Language

9. Citizenship

9. Citizenship

10. Our economy

10. Our economy

11. Trade deals and tax havens

11. Trade deals and tax havens

12. The psychology of rule

12. The psychology of rule

13. War

13. War

14. Investigating tactics

14. Investigating tactics

Index

Index

 

From the back cover

Most people think of the world as divided into countries, and many people identify with their “own” country. Because there’s nothing natural in this, governments and others need to continually encourage identification with the nation. This serves those with power and wealth.

Ruling Tactics outlines the methods commonly used to foster everyday nationalism and how they can be countered. These methods are described in a range of areas, including crime, sport, language, economics, terrorism and war. Ruling Tactics can serve as a practical manual for recognising how thinking is oriented towards the state, and how this sort of thinking can be changed.

The author Brian Martin is an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is the author of 15 books and hundreds of articles on dissent, nonviolent action, scientific controversies, democracy and other topics.

 


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