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9781412900119 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Organizing Identity

  • Persons and Organizations after theory
  • Like many other popular academic terms, ?Identity? has been asked to do so much work that it has often ended up doing none at all and, as a consequence, there has been a recent turn away from identity work. In this book, Paul du Gay moves identity theory in a new direction, offering a distinctive approach to studying how persons ? human and non human - are put together or assembled: how their ?Identities? are formed. The book does this through an engagement with a range of work in the social sciences, humanities and in organization studies which privileges the business of description over metaphysical speculation and epochalist assertion. At the heart of the book is an approach to the material-cultural making up of ?persons? that involves a shift away from general social and cultural accounts concerning the formation of ?subjectivity? and ?identity? towards an understanding of the specific forms of personhood that individuals acquire through their immersion in and subjection to particular normative and technical regimes of conduct. The book is written for scholars - particularly postgraduate and beyond ? interested in debates about identity, subjectivity and personhood in a range of disciplines ? especially those in sociology, social anthropology, geography, and organization and management studies.
  • ISBN-13: 9781412900119 (Hardback)
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
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    AUD $433.00
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  • Local release date: 01/02/2007
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  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Economics [KC]
9780803978836 Academic Inspection Copy
  • Questions of Cultural Identity

  • This text explores the questions which lie at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. The contributors consider such issues as: whether the distinctive identities of gender, sexuality, race, class and nationality, which have long defined the social and cultural world of modern societies, are in decline; whether new forms of identification are rising up and fragmenting the modern individual as a unified subject; and how this "crisis of identity" relates to the wider process of changes which are generating problems for modern societies and undermining the frameworks through which people relate to institutions, each other and themselves. Individual contributors interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity and provide both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity - illuminating and advancing debates about identity and its futures. This book should be useful reading for students and researchers in cultural studies and sociology and across a wide range of the humanities and the social sciences.
  • ISBN-13: 9780803978836 (Paperback)
  • Publisher: SAGE PUBLICATIONS
    Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
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    AUD $145.00
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  • Local release date: 01/06/1996
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  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]Anthropology [JHM]
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