Identity in question

Whilst undoubtedly one of the most controversial but also most established issues in research and debate within the contemporary social and human sciences, as well as in cultural studies, work on 'identity' has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. The aim of this book is to provide...

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Main Authors: Elliott, Anthony, Du Gay, Paul
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: London Sage 2009
SAGE Publications, Limited
SAGE Publications Ltd
Sage Publications
Edition:1
Subjects:
Cultural Theory
Group identity
Identity
Identity (Psychology)
Individuality
Philosophical thought
Self & Identity
Self-concept
Social change
Social theory
ISBN:9781412922432, 1412922437, 1412922429, 9781412922425
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- 1 Identity in a Globalizing World -- 2 Losing the Traditional: Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms' -- 3 The Global New Individualist Debate: Three Theories of Individualism and Beyond -- 4 Heeding Piedade's Song: Feminism and Sublime Affinity -- 5 Top Girls? Young Women and the Post-feminist Sexual Contract -- 6 The Identities of Self-Interest: Performativity, History, Ethics -- 7 The Constitution of Identity: Primary Repression after Kristeva and Laplanche -- 8 Melancholic Identity: Post-traumatic Loss Memory and Identity Formation -- 9 Goodbye To Identity -- 10 Cathected Identities: Governance and Community Activism -- 11 Psy-Art: Re-Imagining Identity -- Index
  • Identity in the Globalizing World -- Losing the Traditional: Individualization and ‘Precarious Freedoms’ -- The Global New Individualist Debate: Three Theories of Individualism and beyond -- Heeding Piedade's Song: Feminism and Sublime Affinity -- Top Girls? Young Women and the Post-Feminist Sexual Contract -- The Identities of Self-Interest: Performativity, History, Ethics -- The Constitution of Identity: Primary Repression after Kristeva and Laplanche -- Melancholic Identities: Post-Traumatic Loss, Memory and Identity Formation -- Goodbye to Identity? -- Cathected Identities: Governance and Community Activism -- Psy-Art: Re-Imagining Identity