Transitional Selves

Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World
Herausgeber: Bussey, Marcus; Mozzini-Alister, Camila; Chakravorty, Meera

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Produktbeschreibung

This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781032125435
• ISBN-10: 1032125438
• Artikelnr.: 67402398

Autorenporträt

Marcus Bussey is Senior Lecturer in Futures and History, in the School of Law and Society at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. As a cultural theorist, historian, and futurist he works on cultural processes that energise social transformation. He uses futures thinking and embodied workshops to challenge the dominant beliefs and assumptions that constrain human responses to rapid cultural, social, environmental, and technological change. Meera Chakravorty is a Research Faculty in the Department of Cultural Studies, Jain University, Bangalore, India. She has been a member of the Karnataka State Women's Commission, Bangalore. Her engagement has been with Philosophy, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies Consciousness Studies and Translation projects. Camila Mozzini-Alister is an adjunct research fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia. Her research affinities are in the interfaces between body, digital mediation, tantric meditation, desire for omnipresence, affection, migration, as well as her work as a performing artist.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Becoming Blind So We Can See 1. Introduction: Identity and
Becoming in a Plurified World Part 1: Liminal Identities 2. "Who am I?":
Vertigo and the Identity Threshold 3. The Creative Self: Artistic
Performance and the Making and Finding of Identity 4. Ecological Identity
through Dialogue 5. On the Crossroads: Hard and Soft Paths at the Centre of
International Education 6. Transilient identities: Creating queer fictive
narratives for transmodern cultural realities Part 2: Digital Identities 7.
Oceanic Medium: Technology, Identity and Maritime Imagination in Vilém
Flusser 8. Virtual Belonging in a Plurified World: online culture and how
the formation of the digital 'I' impacts an individual's sense of belonging
9. The soul of the profile: The subtle link between the practices of
mediation and meditation 10. Identity and political polarization in
post-industrial capitalism Part 3: Identities in Flux 11. A plunge into the
inner self: Reflections about spiritual identity in Neohumanist philosophy
12. Transitional Self: The Other Being 13. Identity as a construct:
Possibilities of Self-Transcendence 14. Identity and Ahimsa Part 4
Anthropologies of Identity 15. Messengers and Media Messages: Learning,
Knowledge and Identity of Muslim Women in India 16. Feeling Sexy and Cool
in the Diaspora: The Construction of Hybrid Identities for Young Migrants
through Dressing and Dancing 17. High tide or low tide: the navigation of
modernity, tradition and kava 18. The Ayahuasca Voices: an earthly
consciousness 19. Identity, culture and migration: A personal narrative of
an emergent self 20. It is Hard Being a Whole in a World that Sees You in
Parts. Afterword.