Argument and Multiple Identities: Contemporary European Nationalism and Environment Alism

Abstract

This essay examines argument and the creation and maintenance of social identity. The relationship between argument and current research on the construction of identities is discussed and two illustrations presented. The first focuses on nationalism as given expression in the divided city of Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovena; the second, focuses on environmentalism as given expression in the dispute over the Brent Spar North Sea oil rig.