Questions of Cultural Identity - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803978839 ISBN 13: 9780803978836

Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long - distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality - are in decline, giving rise to new forms of identification and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject.

Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of this issue. Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. The cast of

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Stuart Hall is professor of sociology at The Open University. His work has had a profound influence on cultural studies and on the rethinking of the sociological understanding of contemporary societies.

Paul du Gay is lecturer in sociology and secretary of the Pavis Centre for Sociological and Social Anthropological Studies at The Open University. He is author of Consumption and Identity at Work (SAGE, 1995).

CONTRIBUTORS

Zygmunt Baumann

Homi Bhabha

James Donald University of Sussex

Simon Frith University of Strathclyde

Lawrence Grossberg University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Kevin Robbins University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Nikolas Rose Goldsmiths College University of London

Marilyn Strathern University of Cambridge

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Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0803978839
• ISBN 13: 9780803978836
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210
• Herausgeber: Hall Stuart, Gay Paul Du
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: Nicht verfügbar