Breaking Up Britain

Mark Perryman is a writer and regular media commentator on Englishness and football, and a research fellow in sport and leisure culture at the University of Brighton. He is convenor of the LondonEnglandFans supporters' group, co-founder of Philosophy Football and author of a number of books, including Ingerland: Travels with a Football Nation and (as editor) Imagined Nation: England after Britain.

• Contents Breaking-up Britain: Keynote Essay Mark Perryman A jigsaw state Section One: Post-Devolution National Identities John Harris An English realignment Kevin Williamson Language and culture in a rediscovered Scotland Charlotte WilliamsThe melting pot and the British meltdown Arthur AugheyWild catastrophism to mild moderation in Northern Ireland Section Two: Models of Civic Nationalism Leanne WoodGreening the Welsh Dragon Salma YaqoobMuslim communities in search of a politics of common ground Gerry AdamsNo more Me Fein but ourselves alone, together and equal Richard ThomsonThe social-democratisation of Scottish nationalism Section Three: Formations of Exclusion Vron Ware The ins and outs of Anglo-Saxonism Inez McCormackA Northern Irish experience of shaping rights Gregor GallIn search of a Scottish outside left Mike ParkerIndependence - that's when good neighbours become good friends Section Four: States of Independence Lesley RiddochTartanspotting and the contradictions of being Scots John OsmondWelsh independence in an era of interdependence Peadar KirbyHow the Celtic Tiger tames Irish dissent Michael Kenny More than one English question & Guy Lodge

'Mark Perryman has long been one of the more articulate commentators on issues of national identity' Andrew Shields, Time Out Praise for Mark Perryman's previous book Imagined Nation: 'Some of the sharpest thinking around on both the pitfalls of nationalism and the potential for a progressive English identity' Gary Younge