Cultural Identity and Political Ethics

📁 Cultural Identity and Political Ethics

✍ Paul Gilbert 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Edinburgh University Press 🌐 English

<p>Today people's cultural identities are increasingly invoked in support of political claims, and these claims commonly lead to acrimony and violence. But what is 'cultural identity', and what is its political significance? This book offers a provocatively sceptical answer to these questions. Traci

Transnational Culture, Transnational Ide

📁 Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange

✍ Maria Koundoura 📂 Library 📅 2012 🏛 I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 🌐 English

Globalization, it seems, either holds the promise of new horizons and new worlds, or trammels local cultures and produces uniformity. Here, Maria Koundoura strikes a singular path between these divergent views and maps the full terrain of our contemporary culture landscape. Reading world literature

Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of

📁 Re-Situating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

✍ Vered Amit-Talai (editor); Caroline Knowles (editor) 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 University of Toronto Press 🌐 English

<p><i>Re-Situating Identities</i> signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies. Instead, inspired by an insistence on concrete social and political change, these essays seek to re-energize the field by s

📁 culture, ethnicity, and identity

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Culture, Identity, and Politics

📁 Culture, Identity, and Politics

✍ Ernest Gellner 📂 Library 📅 1987 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

These essays explore the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world. They range in space from Iran to Algeria, and the eastern marchlands of Europe to the Atlantic, and in time over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But they are all inspired by a cluster of linked preoccupat

Culture, Identity, and Politics

📁 Culture, Identity, and Politics

✍ Ernest Gellner 📂 Library 📅 1987 🌐 English

These essays explore the relationship between culture and politics in the modern world. They range in space from Iran to Algeria, and the eastern marchlands of Europe to the Atlantic, and in time over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. But they are all inspired by a cluster of linked preoccupat