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Identity and Social Change (Hardcover)
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Identity and Social Change (Hardcover)
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There has been a veritable explosion of writing in recent years
about the concept of identity. Amidst this outpouring, the most
influential writing has emerged from identity politics and academic
postmodernism. These movements focus on the construction of
difference, the solidarity of marginal groups, and the
epistemological status of the subject. While of far-reaching
significance, these movements have also led to a general neglect of
the structural and institutional forces behind a wider problem of
identity. Identity and Social Change moves beyond these dominant
trends to explore neglected but critical terrain. The contributors
place the problem of identity in a broader context and approach the
formation of identity in a social rather than discursive framework.
The volume is divided into two parts. The first explores identity
and subjectivity in light of economic changes, new technologies,
consumerism, and globalization, while the second focuses on the
much-discussed question of identity dissolution. Zygmunt Bauman
examines the effects of consumerism on experiences of time,
distance, and place, and considers the constraints these place on
the disadvantaged. Drawing together disparate discourses of
globalization and the body, David Harvey considers the explosive
growth of the wage labor system worldwide and its consequences for
worker subjectivity and a global proletariat. Mike Featherstone
outlines a rethinking of citizenship and identity-formation in
light of the realities of globalization and new information
technologies.
The second part opens with Robert G. Dunn's examination of
cultural commodification and the attenuation of self and social
relations, in which he argues that media, marketplace, and new
orders of experience point to a general destabilization of identity
formation. Kenneth J. Gergen argues that proliferating
communications technologies undermine the traditional conceptions
of self and community and suggest the need for a new base for
building the moral society. Analyzing psychotherapies that address
self-fragmentation. Harvie Ferguson argues that despite the
contemporary infatuation with irony, the decline of the notion of
the self as an inner depth effectively severs the long connection
between irony and identity. This important collection will be of
interest to professionals in psychology, sociology, and
communications.
Joseph E. Davis is program director at the Institute for Advanced
Studies in Culture, and research assistant professor of sociology
at the University of Virginia.
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