Book chapter
'Who Am I?' Vertigo and the Identity Threshold
Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World, pp.15-32
Routledge
2023
Abstract
Who am I? This is the provocation that social media, for all its incredible energy, is unable to answer. To judge by the number of selfies taken today, we are anxious primates, standing before the abyss. We have reached an identity threshold. This chapter offers a vertiginous exploration of identity at the threshold of immanent change. It makes no apology for being present focused, for our identity politics is deeply present centred. Similarly, this present centredness is offset by a timeless and deeply mythic dimension. What is attempted here is a journey that elicits a new map for sensemaking into the future based, not on certainties but on a perhaps. We end with a sense that the futures before us rest not on old certainties but on an acceptance of a nested self in solidarity with the non-humankind that extend both us and our relationship with our world.
Details
- Title
- 'Who Am I?' Vertigo and the Identity Threshold
- Authors
- Marcus Bussey (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 (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Transitional Selves: Possibilities for Identity in a Plurified World, pp.15-32
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003396246-3; 10.4324/9781003396246
- ISBN
- 9781003396246
- Organisation Unit
- Sustainability Research Centre; School of Law and Society; Engage Research Lab
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99721184102621
- Output Type
- Book chapter
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