Sobral, José Manuel2015-04-152015-04-152015Sobral, J. M. (2015). State power and the genesis of portuguese national identity. In Denis Sindic, Manuela Barreto, Rui Costa-Lopes (2015). Power and identity. (Current Issues in Social Psychology), pp. 31-49. London and New York: Psychology Press. Taylor & Francis Group978-1-84872-177-7http://hdl.handle.net/10451/17925This chapter discusses how state power led to the emergence and reproduction of a Portuguese national identity through the intertwined processes of external differentiation and internal (relative) cultural standardisation. In the view stated here, national identy in mainly a product of the continuous deployment of state agency. While dealing with a specific case, the chaoter tries to examine this case within a mor general framework, since the connection between state power and national identity is in no way peculiar to Portugal.porIdentidade nacionalEstadobook part