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This broad-ranging and interdisciplinary text offers a rich overview of political and cultural identity. Changes across the political landscape from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world. In this context, Peter W. Preston draws together diverse strands of literature to throw light on the impact on identity of a changing global environment. The book offers a helpful analysis of political, cultural, and economic identity, which lies at the center of individual actions and social structure. This analysis is fleshed out by a detailed examination of specific regional cases, including the realignment of Europe, the sharp rise of Pacific Asia, and the Americas after NAFTA. This unique blend of cultural theory and political analysis offers important and fascinating insights, making Political/Cultural Identity invaluable reading for students and academics across political, social, and cultural studies.
Global Changes and New Political-Cultural Identities
Global Changes and New Political-Cultural Identities
The discussions of political-cultural identity pursued thus far have concentrated on the detail of the ways in which agents might understand their situations and subsequently act to pursue particular goals. In this chapter we will consider the business of making structural arguments and look at the patterns of change being discussed now at the most general level. We turn our attention, therefore, to the very broadest structural changes which are likely to impact upon agents in the years running up to the millennium and try to indicate the outlines of their developing responses. In the three subsequent chapters we will consider in more detail the patterns of change within the three regions of the ...
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