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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 Ethnographic/Biographical Approach to Identity
An Ethnographic/Biographical Approach to Identity
An alternative approach to the issue of identity informed by the concerns of the classical European tradition will be offered in this chapter. The notion of political-cultural identity will be the subject of the following chapter. The approach advocated in this text centres on the exchange of received structures and creative agents, and this can be understood in ethnographic/biographical terms which focus on locale (the place where people live), networks (the ways in which people interact) and memory (the understandings which are sustained and re-created over time). In this way the richness and detail of identity structures can be grasped.
Available Strategies for Grasping Ethnographic Detail
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