Stuart Hall & Paul du Gay 
Questions of Cultural Identity [EPUB ebook] 
SAGE Publications

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of modern societies for so long — distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality — are in decline, giving rise to new forms of identification and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject.

Questions of Cultural Identity offers a wide-ranging exploration of this issue. Stuart Hall firstly outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. The cast of outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity; in so doing, they provide both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity.

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Introduction — Stuart Hall

Who Needs `Identity′?

From Pilgrim to Tourist — or a Short History of Identity — Zygmunt Bauman

Enabling Identity? — Marilyn Strathern

Biology, Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies

Culture′s In-Between — Homi K Bhabha

Interrupting Identities — Kevin Robins

Turkey/Europe

Identity and Cultural Studies — Is That All There Is? — Lawrence Grossberg

Music and Identity — Simon Frith

Identity, Genealogy, History — Nikolas Rose

Organizing Identity — Paul du Gay

Entrepreneurial Governance and Public Management

The Citizen and the Man about Town — James Donald

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Paul du Gay is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The Open University