Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World

Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World
Title Identity, Culture and the Postmodern World PDF eBook
Author Madan Sarup
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
Pages 192
Release 1996
Genre Culture
ISBN 9780748607792

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This introductory guide surveys the work of a range of influential contemporary social theorists including Lacan, Baudrillard, Foucault, Said, Harvey and Haug and explains their analyses of current topics such as consumer identity and commodity aesthetics; post-colonial criticism; identity andnarrative; and the general condition of postmodernity.

Postmodernism and Cultural Identities

Postmodernism and Cultural Identities
Title Postmodernism and Cultural Identities PDF eBook
Author Virgil Nemoianu
Publisher CUA Press
Pages 407
Release 2010
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0813216842

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*An examination of the survival of cultural values in a postmodern environment*

Undoing Culture

Undoing Culture
Title Undoing Culture PDF eBook
Author Mike Featherstone
Publisher SAGE
Pages 191
Release 1995-09-21
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1848609167

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Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts,the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down. Nonetheless some important cultural changes have occurred since World War II. In particular, the book examines some of the processes which have uncoupled culture from the social; the erosion of the ideal of the heroic life in the face of the onslaught from consumerism and the deformation of culture; and the rise of new forms of identity development. It explains why culture has gained a more significant role in everyday life and also why it has come to preoccupy the Academy in recent years. Mike Featherstone looks at the effects of the multiplication of cultural goods and images on our ability to read culture and develop fixed meanings and relationships. He highlights the importance of the global in attempting to cope with the objective difficulties of cultural overproduction. The book concludes that the rise of non-Western nation-states with different cultural frames produces different reactions of modernity, making it more appropriate to refer to global modernities.

Youth Culture

Youth Culture
Title Youth Culture PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Epstein
Publisher Blackwell Publishing
Pages 329
Release 1998-08-17
Genre Family & Relationships
ISBN 9781557868510

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Bridging sociology and cultural studies, this collection of essays examines today's youth, their music and cultural identities.

Reclaiming Identity

Reclaiming Identity
Title Reclaiming Identity PDF eBook
Author Paula M. L. Moya
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 372
Release 2000-12-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780520223493

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This collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences. They examine the way theory, politics and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential understandings of identity.

Difference Troubles

Difference Troubles
Title Difference Troubles PDF eBook
Author Steven Seidman
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 338
Release 1997-10-09
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521599702

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Difference Troubles, first published in 1997, examines the implications for social theory and sexual politics of taking difference seriously. It explores the trouble difference makes not only for the social sciences, but also for the people - feminists, queer theorists, postmodernists - who champion difference. Seidman asks how social thinkers should conceptualize differences such as gender, race, and sexuality, without reducing them to an inferior status. This is a wide-ranging and sophisticated discussion of contemporary social theory and sexual politics, presented with Seidman's familiar imagination and clarity. In addition, it argues persuasively for a pragmatic approach to difference troubles in theory and politics.

Social Postmodernism

Social Postmodernism
Title Social Postmodernism PDF eBook
Author Linda Nicholson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 416
Release 1995-09-14
Genre Political Science
ISBN 9780521475716

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Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.