Enacting national concerns: Anglo-British accounts of the 2002 Royal Golden Jubilee

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-137

  Stevenson, Clifford ^a   Abell, Jackie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crowd behaviour; Discourse analysis; Monarchy; National identity; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951548759     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.1070     Document Type: Article

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