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Author : Jean-François Bayart
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
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Bayart provides an examination of the fluidity of ideas of culture with relation to identity, state-building and political action.
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0393329291
The violence of illusion -- Making sense of identity -- Civilizational confinement -- Religious affiliations and Muslim history -- West and anti-west -- Culture and captivity -- Globalization and voice -- Multiculturalism and freedom -- Freedom to think.
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780141027807
Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others.
Author : Andreas Reckwitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509545719
We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.
Author : François Jullien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509547037
As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wall against the homogenizing effects of globalization and a framework for nurturing and protecting cultural differences. In this short and provocative book, François Jullien argues that this emphasis on cultural identity is a mistake. Cultures exist in relation to one another and they are constantly mutating and transforming themselves. There is no cultural identity, there are only what Jullien calls ‘resources’. Resources are created in a certain space, they are available to all and belong to no one. They are not exclusive, like the values to which we proclaim loyalty; instead, we deploy them or not, activate them or let them fall by the wayside, and each of us as individuals is responsible for these choices. This conceptual shift requires us to redefine three key terms – the universal, the uniform and the common. Equipped with these concepts, we can rethink the dialogue between cultures in a way that avoids what Jullien sees as the false debate about identity and difference. This powerful critique of the modern shibboleth of cultural identity will appeal to anyone interested in the great social and political questions of our time.
Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher :
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
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Author : Jochen Achilles
Publisher : Universitatsverlag C. Winter
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Author : Porochista Khakpour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1620403048
A kaleidoscopic tale inspired by a legend from the medieval Persian epic "Book of Kings" follows the coming-of-age of a feral Middle Eastern youth in New York City on the eve of the September 11 attacks. By the award-winning author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects. 25,000 first printing.
Author : Grant David McCracken
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 930 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2008-05-12
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0253219574
The reinvention of identity in today's world.
Author : Nikos Papastergiadis
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 31,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN :
The author stages a series of conversations with prominent writers and artists to assess how to define cultural identity in the modern world and age of mass media and global migration. His premise is that conventional cultural identity is not static.