"In Global Taiwanese, Fiona Moore explores the different ways in which Taiwanese expatriates living in London and Toronto, along with globally networked professionals in Taipei, use their shared Taiwanese identities to construct and maintain global and local networks. Based on a…
This book explores the origins and development of territorial identities within the landscape. It uses a wide range of archaeological evidence to study the landscape of eastern England in the Iron Age, Roman, and early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) periods.
"This pioneering study explores early medieval Frankish identity as a window into the formation of a distinct Western conception of ethnicity. Focusing on the turbulent and varied history of Frankish identity in Merovingian and Carolingian historiography, it offers a new basis f…
This title examines the performance of Nordic heritage and the shaping of the very idea of 'Norden' in diverse contexts in North America, the Baltic, and the Nordic countries and examines the importance of these places as sites for creating and preserving cultural heritage.
The performance of heritage takes place in prestigious institutions such as museums and archives, in officially sanctioned spaces such as jubilees and public monuments, but also in more mundane, ephemeral and banal cultural practices, such as naming of phenomena, viewing exhibit…
New queer cinema: a critical reader
Handbook of multicultural counseling
Explores the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Can one change one's ethnicity? Can an entire ethnic group change its ethnicity? This book focuses on the strategic manipulation of ethnic identity by the Mukogodo of Kenya. Until the 1920s and 1930…
How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This text aims to bring clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conf…
