Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World

Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World

Author: Madan Sarup

Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780748607792

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This 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.


Undoing Culture

Undoing Culture

Author: Mike Featherstone

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1995-09-21

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1848609167

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Written 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.


Youth Culture

Youth Culture

Author: Jonathan Epstein

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

Published: 1998-08-17

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 9781557868510

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Bridging sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays examines today's youth, their music and cultural identities.


Reclaiming Identity

Reclaiming Identity

Author: Paula M. L. Moya

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2000-12-14

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9780520223493

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This 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.


Difference Troubles

Difference Troubles

Author: Steven Seidman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1997-10-09

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780521599702

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Difference 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.


Identity Crises

Identity Crises

Author: Robert G. Dunn

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780816630738

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Significant 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.


Social Postmodernism

Social Postmodernism

Author: Linda Nicholson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-14

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780521475716

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Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.


Culture and Identity

Culture and Identity

Author: Ross Abbinnett

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-07-21

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780761965190

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This 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.


Cultural Identity and Global Process

Cultural Identity and Global Process

Author: Jonathan Friedman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 1994-12-09

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780803986381

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This 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