Postmodernism and Cultural Identities
Author: Virgil Nemoianu
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0813216842
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Author: Virgil Nemoianu
Publisher: CUA Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0813216842
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*
Author: Madan Sarup
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780748607792
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity andnarrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.
Author: Mike Featherstone
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1995-09-21
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1848609167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-10-09
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521599702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDifference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.
Author: Jonathan Epstein
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 1998-08-17
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781557868510
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBridging sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays examines today's youth, their music and cultural identities.
Author: Robert G. Dunn
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780816630738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSignificant to Dunn's critique of poststructuralist and postmodern theories is his application of George Herbert Mead as a means of theorizing identity and difference. The focus on postmodernity, rather than postmodernism grounds his analysis of identity and difference both materially and socially.
Author: Paula M. L. Moya
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-12-14
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9780520223493
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.
Author: Jonathan Friedman
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1994-12-09
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780803986381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fascinating book explores the interface between global processes, identity formation and the production of culture. Examining ideas ranging from world systems theory to postmodernism, Jonathan Friedman investigates the relations between the global and the local, to show how cultural fragmentation and modernist homogenization are equally constitutive trends of global reality. With examples taken from a rich variety of theoretical sources, ethnographic accounts of historical eras, the analysis ranges across the cultural formations of ancient Greece, contemporary processes of Hawaiian cultural identification and Congolese beauty cults. Throughout, the author examines the interdependency of world market and local cultural
Author: Ross Abbinnett
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2003-07-21
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780761965190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis incisive text provides a concise and reliable guide to the debate on modernity and postmodernity. In particular the work of Lyotard, Beck, Bauman, Baudrillard, Giddens, Jameson and Derrida is critically reviewed.
Author: Paul Lakeland
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9781451416305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than a guidebook to the postmodernity debate, Paul Lakeland's lively and novel volume clarifies the critical impulses behind the cultural, intellectual, and scientific expressions of postmodern thought. He identifies the issues it presents for religion and for Christian theology. Concentrating on God, Church, and Christ, Lakeland outlines the church's mission to the postmodern world, including a constructive theological apologetics.