"This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with crucial questions such as: What models are shaping our view of ourselves and the society in which we live? What images ground our perception of what is true and real? How have the images been historically produced? What are the effects of such models on definitions of self? Should we break free from these images if we get to know what they are? Is it possible to change our models in order to create freer identities? Through a range of distinctive lenses, the essays in the volume deals with the ideas of the 'liminal self', the 'digital self', 'identities in flux', and offers up 'anthropologies of self/selves' that situates current identity processes within their cultures and explores strategies and dilemmas from this perspective. This key volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literary stories, critical theory, social theory, social anthropology, philosophy, and political philosophy"--
This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress.
This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with crucial questions such as: What models are shaping our view of ourselves and the society in which we live? What images ground our perception of what is true and real? How have the images been historically produced? What are the effects of such models on definitions of self? Should we break free from these images if we get to know what they are? Is it possible to change our models in order to create freer identities?
Through a range of distinctive lenses, the essays in the volume deals with the ideas of the liminal self, the digital self, identities in flux, and offers up anthropologies of self/selves that situates current identity processes within their cultures and explores strategies and dilemmas from this perspective. This key volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of literary stories, critical theory, social theory, social anthropology, philosophy, and political philosophy.
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 individuals 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.
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 Womens Commission, Bangalore. Her engagement has been with Philosophy, Womens 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.
