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Identity in Transformation Postmodernity, Postcommunism, and Globalization

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Marian Kempny, Aldona Jaw/lowska

Book Code: C7545

ISBN: 0-275-97545-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97545-6

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232 pages, photo

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/2002

List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £57.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Description: This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the strong links between the way we form our individual and collective identities and the type of society in which we live. The contributors--who include sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and philosophers--focus on the issue of modern identity both on a conceptual level and in the context of European unification and progressive globalization. Among the issues examined are the tension between our fluid, situation-specific identity and our constant attempt to create a coherent image of the self; the transformation of identities resulting from the collective experiences of East European societies in the aftermath of Communism; and the interplay between the evolution of the modes of constitution of identity and the social changes determined by European integration.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: On "Identity," Fixity, and Change in Social Theory and Social Life under Globalized Conditions by Marian Kempny
Conceptualizing and Representing "Identity"
Identity--Then, Now, What For? by Zygmunt Bauman
An Essay on the Fluidity of Identity by Martin O'Brien
How is the Identity to be Visualized? Two Remarks on Identity and Architecture by Ewa Rewers
The Sacred Heart of Jesus--Shaping the Visual Identity of Modern Catholicism by Ewa Klekot
Difference and Identity-Formation in the Gloabalizing World
The Primacy of Difference, or the Lack of Equilibrium in Contemporary Moral Discourse by Agata Bielik-Robson
Identity and Difference in Postmodern Culture by Zbyszko Melosik
Machines of Identity by Tomasz Szkudlarek
Being Different: Construction of Individual Identity by Malgorzata Melchior
The Prodigal Son: New Spiritualities by Anna E. Kubiak
Structuring of Identities in Contemporary Europe
Europe, Travelling Light: Europeanization and Globalization by Jan Nederveen Pieterse
Separatism in Europe around the Turn of the Century by Peter Kloos
Peer Groups as Frames for Identification by Talja Blokland
German Postnational Identity and Western Republicanism by Winfried Thaa
Consumer Identity in Contemporary Poland by Aldona Jaw/lowska
Construction of Identity and Material Culture in Contemporary Poland by Bogumila Puchalska
Index

LC Card Number: 2002019630

LCC Class: HN373

Dewey Class: 302


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