In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations - the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence - generatesa metamorphosis across the force-field of identities today.
Identity Troubles documents various contemporary mutations of identity - from robotics to biomedicine, from cosmetic surgery to digital lives - and considers their broader social,...
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central ...
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central to everyday life. In this fascinating book, Anthony Elliott shows how global transformations - the new electronic economy, digital worlds, biotechnologies and artificial intelligence - generatesa metamorphosis across the force-field of identities today.
Identity Troubles documents various contemporary mutations of identity - from robotics to biomedicine, from cosmetic surgery to digital lives - and considers their broader social,...
In our turbulent world of global flows and digital transformations pervasive identity crises and self-reinvention have become increasingly central ...
A term of antique provenance, identity has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the daunting quantity (and variable quality) of the available research exploring the many, often controversial, issues attendant upon identity and the breadth and complexity of the canon on which it draws makes it difficult to discriminate the useful from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. That is why this new title in the highly regarded Routledge series, Critical Concepts in Sociology, is so timely. It answers the urgent need for a...
A term of antique provenance, identity has developed and cohered into a critical concept in contemporary social and cultural analysis. However, the...
Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin forces of globalization and the communications revolution. But what makes today s disasters industrial, technological, environmental, and socio-cultural so different in scope and impact? What are the possible disasters of the future? And how can we, as collective humanity, best manage and respond to the globalization of disasters?
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The Consequences of Global Disasters" makes a distinctive contribution to the ever-expanding field of disaster...
Disasters of the 21st century differ substantially from other kinds of hazards that previous societies have had to cope with because of the twin fo...
