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Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as one
is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. Cultural
identity is similar to and has overlaps with, but is not synonymous
with, identity politics.
Description
There are modern questions of culture that are transferred into
questions of identity. Various cultural studies and social theories investigate the question of
cultural identity. In recent decades, a new form of identification
has emerged. This new form of identification breaks down the
understanding of the individual as a coherent whole subject to a
collection of various cultural identifiers. These cultural
identifiers examine the condition of the subject from a variety of
aspects including: place, gender, race, history, nationality, language, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity and aesthetics.
Culture, as a social practice, is not something that individuals
possess. Rather, it is a social process in which individuals
participate, in the context of changing historical conditions. As a
"historical reservoir", culture is an important factor in shaping
identity[1] Some
critics of cultural identity argue that the preservation of
cultural identity, being based upon difference, is a divisive force
in society, and that cosmopolitanism gives individuals a
greater sense of shared citizenship.[2]. That
is not to always be divisive. When considering practical
association in international society, states may share an inherent
part of their 'make up' that gives common ground, and alternate
means of identifying with each other. Examples can be taken from
both old and contemporary world order. In the old world order
European states shared a high level of cultural homogeneity, due to
their common history of "frequently violent relationships, and
Greco-Roman cultural origins" (Brown 2001). Brown also argues that
the Western invention of the nation-state has
proven to be an appealing and homogenising factor to many
cultures.[3].
See also
- General
- Identity
- Culture
- Politics
- ^
Nicola, Pratt.Identity, Culture and Democratization: The Case of
Egypt(Journal of New Political Science, vol. 27 , no.1, March
2005)
- ^
The Limits of
Nationalism by Chaim Gans. ISBN 9780521004671 ISBN
0521004675
- ^ C
Brown (2001) Understanding International Relations.
Hampshire, Palgrave
References
- Tan, S.-h. (2005). Challenging citizenship:
group membership and cultural identity in a global age.
Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate. ISBN 0754643670
- Bunschoten, R., Binet, H., & Hoshino, T. (2001). Urban flotsam: stirring
the city : Chora. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. ISBN
9064503877
- Mandelbaum, M. (2000). The new European
diasporas: national minorities and conflict in Eastern
Europe. New York: Council on Foreign Relations Press
- Houtman, G. (1999). Mental culture in Burmese
crisis politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for
Democracy. Tokyo: Institute for the Study of Languages and
Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
(library.cornell.edu). ISBN
4872977483
- Sagasti, F. R., & Alcalde, G. (1999). Development cooperation in
a fractured global order: an arduous transition. Ottawa:
International Development Research Centre. ISBN 0889368899
- Crahan, M. E., & Vourvoulias-Bush, A. (1997). The city and the world:
New York's global future. New York: Council on Foreign
relations. ISBN 0876092083
- Hall, S., & Du Gay, P. (1996). Questions of cultural
identity. London: Sage. ISBN 0803978839
- Cable, V. (1994). The world's new
fissures: identities in crisis. London: Demos. ISBN
1898309353
- Berkson, I. B. (1920).Theories of
Americanization a critical study, with special reference
to the Jewish group. New York City: Teachers College, Columbia
University.
Further
reading
- Robyns, Clem (1995). "Defending the national identity". In
Andreas Poltermann (Ed.), Literaturkanon, Medienereignis,
Kultureller Text. Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag ISBN
3-503-03727-6.
- Robyns, Clem (1994). "Translation and discursive identity". In
Clem Robyns (Ed.), Translation and the Reproduction of
Culture. Leuven: Cetra. Also in Poetics Today
15 (3), 405–428.
- Anderson, Benedict (1991). Imagined Communities.
London: Verso.
- Gellner, Ernest (1983). Nations and Nationalism.
Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
- Bourdieu, Pierre (1980). "L'identité et la représentation".
Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales
35, 63–70.
- Gordon, David C. (1978). The French Language and National
Identity (1930-1975). The Hague: Mouton.
- de Certeau, Michel; Julia, Dominique; & Revel, Jacques
(1975). Une politique de la langue: La Révolution française et
les patois. Paris: Gallimard.
- Balibar, Renée & Laporte, Dominique (1974). Le français
national: Politique et pratique de la langue nationale sous la
Révolution. Paris: Hachette.
- Fishman,
Joshua A. (1973). Language and Nationalism: Two Integrative
Essays. Rowley, MA: Newbury House.
- (full-text IDENTITIES: how
Governed, Who Pays?)
- Woolf, Stuart. "Europe and the Nation-State". EUI Working
Papers in History 91/11. Florence: European University
Institute.
- Stewart, Edward C.; Bennet, Milton J. (1991). American
Cultural Patterns. Intercultural Press, Boston, MA.
- Evangelista, M. (2003). "Culture, Identity, and Conflict: The
Influence of Gender," in Conflict and Reconstruction in
Multiethnic Societies, Washington, D.C.: The National
Academies Press [1]
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