Culture and Power: Identity and Identification

Culture and Power: Identity and Identification
ISBN-10
1443865591
ISBN-13
9781443865593
Series
Culture and Power
Category
Social Science
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2014-08-11
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Authors
Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo, Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo

Description

Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identity and identification in cultural studies today. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on identity-forging practices from various theoretical positions in different social, historic and national contexts. The chapters of this volume range from overtly theoretical discussions on the construction of identities and subjectivities in post-modernity, to examinations of the crucial role of (print) media in identity-construction and -representation processes in contemporary social formations through an insight into other key issues in cultural studies, such as gender politics and the construction of femininities, the hybridization of identities in the context of postcolonial work, and the interplay between collective identities and discourses on nation.

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