Book chapter
Introduction: Identity and Becoming in a Plurified World
Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World, pp.1-12
Routledge
2023
Abstract
Our world is fragmenting under the pressure of multiple trends. It seems humanity has outgrown its spatio-temporal referents and the narratives that sustained them. These simple narratives are no longer up to the task of sustaining stable selves. Environmental stress, globalisation, mass displacements of people, violence, cyberspace and now COVID-19 all stretch and twist, fold and invert the comfortable contours of self that have held identity on its course for generations. The result is identity stress. Self is no longer a noun, anchored in time and place and sustained through stable and repetitive incantations. Even the most remote individual 'self' is required to define him/her/us/themselves/itself iteratively in relationship with the powerful centres of identity creation. As this statement illustrates, even personal pronouns are not what they used to be. They are political and existential markers in a world that is in flux. Identity is either attached to a fundamentalist essentialised constellation of gender, ethnic, religious, nationalist, ideological groups or up for grabs as a mishmash of competing partial and unstable elements, all telling partial open-ended stories.
Details
- Title
- Introduction: Identity and Becoming in a Plurified World
- Authors
- Marcus Bussey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyMeera Chakravorty (Author) - Jain UniversityCamila Mozzini-Alister (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Contributors
- Marcus Bussey (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Sustainability Research CentreMeera Chakravorty (Editor) - Jain UniversityCamila Mozzini-Alister (Editor) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World, pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003396246-1; 10.4324/9781003396246
- ISBN
- 9781003396246
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99721184202621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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