Identity In Transformation: Postmodernity, Postcommunism, And Globalization [Hardcover]

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the strong links between the way we form our individual and collective identities and the type of society in which we live. The contributorswho include sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and philosophersfocus on the issue of modern identity both on a conceptual level and in the context of European unification and progressive globalization. Among the issues examined are the tension between our fluid, situation-specific identity and our constant attempt to create a coherent image of the self; the transformation of identities resulting from the collective experiences of East European societies in the aftermath of Communism; and the interplay between the evolution of the modes of constitution of identity and the social changes determined by European integration.

MARIAN KEMPNY is Associate Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw.

ALDONA JAWLOWSKA is Professor at the Institute for Applied Social Sciences of the University of Warsaw and at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Preface
Introduction: On Identity, Fixity, and Change in Social Theory and Social Life under Globalized Conditions by Marian Kempny
Conceptualizing and Representing Identity
Identity--Then, Now, What For? by Zygmunt Bauman
An Essay on the Fluidity of Identity by Martin O'Brien
How is the Identity to be Visualized? Two Remarks on Identity and Architecture by Ewa Rewers
The Sacred Heart of Jesus--Shaping the Visual Identity of Modern Catholicism by Ewa Klekot
Difference and Identity-Formation in the Gloabalizing World
The Primacy of Difference, or the Lack of Equilibrium in Contemporary Moral Discourse by Agata Bielik-Robson
Identity and Difference in Postmodern Culture by Zbyszko Melosik
Machines of Identity by Tomasz Szkudlarek
Being Different: Construction of Individual Identity by Malgorl£-