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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.
An Introduction to the Problem
An Introduction to the Problem
The fundamental argument of the text is that political-cultural identity is a matter of the creative response of groups to the structural circumstances enfolding the collectivity which they inhabit. It can be suggested that, as the structural circumstances which have shaped the post-Second World War understandings of various groups within the global system are now in process of change, then the ways in which these groups have understood themselves will also be undergoing change.
The concerns of the text in respect of the issue of political-cultural identity could be pursued in a number of ways. This text is intellectually grounded in the classical European tradition of social theory with its characteristic concern to elucidate the dynamics of ...
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