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Identity in Transformation Postmodernity, Postcommunism, and Globalization
Marian Kempny, Aldona Jawlowska
ISBN: 0-275-97545-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97545-6
232 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/2002
List Price: $98.95 (UK Sterling Price: £68.95)
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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
About the Author: MARIAN KEMPNY is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

ALDONA JAWLOWSKA is Professor at the Institute for Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
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