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Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation-state' and `national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed.
The Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s: Psychoanalysis and the Public/Private Division
The Birth of Identity Politics in the 1960s: Psychoanalysis and the Public/Private Division
Sparked by the African-American and other freedom struggles, and by the women's liberation movement, a new type of politics emerged in the United States, Canada and Europe in the 1960s. ‘Multiculturalism’, ‘class, race and gender’, ‘identity politics’ and the ‘politics of difference’ are among the concepts and slogans it has generated. Its defining idea is that no superordinate group appellation, such as ‘man’, ‘humanity’, ‘the working class’ or ‘the American people’, should be used without recognizing the differences that exist within the aggregate - such differences as male and female, abled and disabled, native born and immigrant, and so forth. ...
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