Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (International Library of Sociology) - Softcover

"I have no doubt whatsoever that the book will become very quickly a major text in the field. A fine collection which I hope will attract the kind of critical attention and respect it deserves." -Stuart Hall, Open University Spaces of Identity is an itelligently written, thought-provoking work, one that succeds in presenting relevent concerns in an interesting theoretical framework

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities.