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| Author | : Nicholas Monk |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 333 |
| Release | : 2017-07-31 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 3319584278 |
This book examines the notion of identity through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches. It collects current thinking from international scholars spanning philosophy, history, science, cultural studies, media, translation, performance, and marketing, each with an outlook informed by their own subject and a mission to reflect on a theme that is greater than the sum of its parts. This project was born out of a dynamic international and interdisciplinary pedagogical experience. While by no means a teaching guide or textbook, the authors’ experience of sharing the module with their students reinforced the fluidity and elusiveness of identity and its persistent facility to escape disciplinary classification. Identity as a subject for analysis and discussion, and as a lived reality for all of us, has never been more complex and multi-faceted. Each chapter of this singular collection provides a lens through which the concept of identity can be viewed and as the book progresses it moves from ideas based in disciplinary contexts – biology, psychiatry, philosophy, to those developed in multi and inter disciplinary contexts such as area studies, feminism and queer studies.
| Author | : Celia Whitchurch |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0415564662 |
First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Maja Korac |
| Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2009-10-01 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1845459563 |
Rather than emphasising boundaries and territories by examining the ‘integration’ and ‘acculturation’ of the immigrant or the refugee, this book offers insights into the ideas and practices of individuals settling into new societies and cultures. It analyses their ideas of connecting and belonging; their accounts of the past, the present and the future; the interaction and networks of relations; practical strategies; and the different meanings of ‘home’ and belonging that are constructed in new sociocultural settings. The author uses empirical research to explore the experiences of refugees from the successor states of Yugoslavia, who are struggling to make a home for themselves in Amsterdam and Rome. By explaining how real people navigate through the difficulties of their displacement as well as the numerous scenarios and barriers to their emplacement, the author sheds new light on our understanding of what it is like to be a refugee.
| Author | : Kimberly Eison Simmons |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
In Latin America and the Caribbean, racial issues are extremely complex and fluid, particularly the nature of 'blackness.' What it means to be called black is still very different for an African American living in the United States than it is for an individual in the Dominican Republic with an African ancestry. Racial categories were far from concrete as the Dominican populace grew, altered, and solidified around the present notions of identity. Kimberly Simmons explores the fascinating socio-cultural shifts in Dominicans' racial categories, concluding that Dominicans are slowly embracing blackness and ideas of African ancestry. Simmons also examines the movement of individuals between the Dominican Republic and the United States, where traditional notions of indio are challenged, debated, and called into question. How and why Dominicans define their racial identities reveal shifting coalitions between Caribbean peoples and African Americans, and proves intrinsic to understanding identities in the African diaspora.
| Author | : Gerald Easter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 238 |
| Release | : 2000-01-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521660858 |
Using archival sources, this book presents an explanation for the rise and subsequent collapse of the Soviet state.
| Author | : Redie Bereketeab |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2017-02-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 331939892X |
This book examines post-secession and post-transition state building in Somaliland, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. It explores two intimately linked, yet analytically distinct themes: state building and national identity reconstruction following secession and collapse. In Somaliland and South Sudan, rearranging the state requires a complete metamorphosis of state institutions so that they respond to the needs and interests of the people. In Sudan and Somalia, the reconfiguration of the remains of the state must address a new reality and demands on the ground. All four cases examined, although highly variable, involve conflict. Conflict defines the scope, depth and momentum of the state building and state reconstruction process. It also determines the contours and parameters of the projects to reconstitute national identity and rebuild a nation. Addressing the contested identity formation and its direct relation to state building would therefore go a long way in mitigating conflicts and state crisis.
| Author | : K. Stephen Prince |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469614189 |
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the North assumed significant power to redefine the South, imagining a region rebuilt and modeled on northern society. The white South actively resisted these efforts, battling the legal strictures of Reconstruction on the ground. Meanwhile, white southern storytellers worked to recast the South's image, romanticizing the Lost Cause and heralding the birth of a New South. Prince argues that this cultural production was as important as political competition and economic striving in turning the South and the nation away from the egalitarian promises of Reconstruction and toward Jim Crow.
| Author | : Kemal H. Karpat |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0195136187 |
This book analyzes the transformation of the Ottoman Empire over the 19th and 20th centuries. It focuses on Muslim revivalist-fundamentalist movements which were contained by the Ottoman government's Islamist ideology and whose ideas fuelled a new kind of nationalist-religious ideology.
| Author | : Marsha L. Rozenblit |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Austria |
| ISBN | : 0195176308 |
This book explores the impact of war and political crisis on the national identity of Jews, both in the multinational Habsburg monarchy and in the new nation-states that replaced it at the end of World War I. Jews enthusiastically supported the Austrian war effort because it allowed them to assert their Austrian loyalties and Jewish solidarity at the same time. They faced a grave crisis of identity when the multinational state collapsed and they lived in nation-states mostly uncomfortable with ethnic minorities. This book raises important questions about Jewish identity and about the general nature of ethnic and national identity.
| Author | : Heide Fehrenbach |
| Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
| Total Pages | : 381 |
| Release | : 2000-11-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0807861375 |
Heide Fehrenbach analyzes the important role cinema played in the reconstruction of German cultural and political identity between 1945 and 1962. Concentrating on the former West Germany, she explores the complex political uses of film--and the meanings attributed to film representation and spectatorship--during a period of abrupt transition to democracy. According to Fehrenbach, the process of national redefinition made cinema and cinematic control a focus of heated ideological debate. Moving beyond a narrow political examination of Allied-German negotiations, she investigates the broader social nexus of popular moviegoing, public demonstrations, film clubs, and municipal festivals. She also draws on work in gender and film studies to probe the ways filmmakers, students, church leaders, local politicians, and the general public articulated national identity in relation to the challenges posed by military occupation, American commercial culture, and redefined gender roles. Thus highlighting the links between national identity and cultural practice, this book provides a richer picture of what German reconstruction entailed for both women and men.
