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Identity in transformation : postmodernity, postcommunism, and globalization / edited by Marian Kempny and Aldona Jawłowska.
LIBRA HN373.5 .I3297 2002
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Van Pelt Library HN373.5 .I3297 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity--Europe.
- Group identity.
- Post-communism.
- Postmodernism.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Europe.
- Identity (Psychology)--Europe.
- Social change--Europe.
- Social change.
- Postmodernism--Europe.
- Post-communism--Europe.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 221 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
- Summary:
- Focuses on the links between the way we form our identities and the type of society in which we live.
- Contents:
- Introduction: On "Identity," Fixity, and Change in Social Theory and Social Life under Globalized Conditions / Marian Kempny 1
- Part I Conceptualizing and Representing "Identity"
- 1 Identity: Then, Now, What For? / Zygmunt Bauman 19
- 2 An Essay on the Fluidity of Identity / Martin O'Brien 33
- 3 How Is Identity to Be Visualized? Two Remarks on Identity and Architecture / Ewa Rewers 41
- 4 The Sacred Heart of Jesus: Shaping the Visual Identity of Modern Catholicism in Spain / Ewa Klekot 51
- Part II Difference and Identity Formation in the Globalizing World
- 5 The Primacy of Difference: The Lack of Equilibrium in Contemporary Moral Discourse / Agata Bielik-Robson 63
- 6 Identity and Difference in Postmodern Culture / Zbyszko Melosik 73
- 7 Machines of Identity / Tomasz Szkudlarek 87
- 8 Being Different: Construction of Individual Identity / Malgorzata Melchior 105
- 9 The Prodigal Son: New Spiritualities / Anna E. Kubiak 115
- Part III Structuring of Identities in Contemporary Europe
- 10 Europe, Traveling Light: Europeanization and Globalization / Jan Nederveen Pieterse 127
- 11 Separatism in Europe around the Turn of the Century / Peter Kloos 145
- 12 Peer Groups as Frames for Social Identification: Peer-Group Lives of Turkish
- Dutch and Native Dutch Women in Inner-City Neighborhoods / Talja Blokland 153
- 13 German Postnational Identity and Western Republicanism / Winfried Thaa 163
- 14 Consumer Identity in Contemporary Poland / Aldona Jawlowska 177
- 15 Construction of Identity and Material Culture in Contemporary Poland / Bogumila Puchalska 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0275975452
- OCLC:
- 50787114
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