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MAPPING IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION PROCESSES K...

This book deals with the subject of identity and identification within contemporary cultural
studies and includes a selection of papers from the 14th International 'Culture & Power'
Conference held in Ciudad Real  Spain  in 2010. The volume contributes to contemporary debates
on identity-construction practices from various theoretical positions in different social 
historic and national contexts. The initial section presents various theoretical discussions on
how identity construction and identification phenomena are framed within current disciplinary
debates about cultural studies and its future as an academic inter- and transdisciplinary field
of enquiry. In the following sections  identity and identification processes are analysed from
a variety of perspectives. In particular  the articles delve into the construction of
marginalised identities and the exploration of identification processes that subvert dominant 
established or accepted cultural identities. The authors explore the role of print media and
videogames in constructing and representing identities  they examine the construction of
masculinities and femininities in film  music and gay liberation movements  they analyse the
interplay between globalisation and nationalism and its impact on cultural products in Asia or
Africa  and provide examples of cultural history approaches to the articulation of several
national identities. Considered together  the chapters engage with the most relevant concerns
pervading identity theory and cultural studies today.

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