书目名称 | Exploring Transculturalism | 副标题 | A Biographical Appro | 编辑 | Wolfgang Berg,Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh | 视频video | | 概述 | A Biographical Approach | 丛书名称 | Crossculture | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | 1. 2 Culture and Identity in a Postmodern WorldMichel Foucault’s statement that: “The present epoch will perhaps be above all the epoch of space. We are in the epoch of simultaneity; we are in the epoch of juxtaposition” (M. Foucault 1986: 22) heralded a new approach to identity in the contemporary world by suggesting that one’s identity is formed not as a result of the cultural and national values and history one has inherited, but rather as a result of the different spaces through which one travels. In other words, one’s identity is no longer perceived as an inherited construct but rather as something flexible that changes as one moves through the more fluid spaces of the contemporary, globalized world and internalizes a mixture of the different cultures and ideas that one encounters. The idealized contemporary traveller will thus effortlessly cross national and cultural borders and negotiate a constantly changing and flexible identity for himself. Andy Bennett argues that it is no longer even possible to conceive of identity as a static entity, forged from a communal history and value system, because all of the traditional certainties on which identity formation were based in th | 出版日期 | Book 2010 | 关键词 | Autobiography / Biography; Culture; Diaspora; Diversity, cultural; Identity; Nation | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92440-3 | isbn_softcover | 978-3-531-17286-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-3-531-92440-3 | copyright | VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2010 |
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