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Identity in question / Anthony Elliott and Paul du Gay.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Group identity.
- Identity (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 220 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; London : SAGE, c2009.
- Los Angleles ; London : SAGE, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Work on 'identity' has undergone dramatic changes in recent years. This volume provides a detailed analysis of those changes, by confronting the impact of both substantive challenges, concerning globalization, individualization and commodification.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Editors' Introduction; 1 - Identity in the 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 Identities: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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612623639
- 9781473903777
- 1473903777
- 9781412922425
- 1412922429
- 9781282623637
- 128262363X
- 9780857026644
- 085702664X
- OCLC:
- 638860692
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