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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458388203321

Titolo

Identity in question [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Anthony Elliott and Paul du Gay

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Los Angeles, [Calif.] ; ; London, : SAGE, c2009

ISBN

1-4129-2242-9

1-282-62363-X

9786612623639

0-85702-664-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ElliottAnthony <1964->

Du GayPaul

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Group identity

Identity (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.