Spaces of Identity: Global Media, Electronic Landscapes and Cultural Boundaries (International Library of Sociology)

We are living through a time when old identities - nation, culture and gender are melting down. Spaces of Identity examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a post-modern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. To address current problems of identity, the authors look at contemporary politics between Europe and its most significant others: America; Islam and the Orient. They show that it's against these places that Europe's own identity has been and is now being defined. A stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of contemporary cultural identities. Sociology Book Cover 1 Title 4 Contents 5 Introduction 8 GLOBALISATION AS IDENTITY CRISIS: THE NEW GLOBAL MEDIA LANDSCAPE 17 REIMAGINED COMMUNITIES? NEW MEDIA, NEW POSSIBILITIES 33 CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF EUROPE 50 EUROCULTURE: COMMUNICATION, SPACE AND TIME 77 NO PLACE LIKE HEIMAT: IMAGES OF HOME(LAND) 92 TRADITION AND TRANSLATION: NATIONAL CULTURE IN ITS GLOBAL CONTEXT 112 UNDER WESTERN EYES: MEDIA, EMPIRE AND OTHERNESS 132 TECHNO-ORIENTALISM: JAPAN PANIC 154 THE POLITICS OF SILENCE: THE MEANING OF COMMUNITY AND THE USES OF MEDIA 181 THE END OF WHAT? POSTMODERNISM, HISTORY AND THE WEST 205 Bibliography 236 Index 254 Examines the ways in which collective cultural identities are being reshaped under conditions of a postmodern geography and a communications environment of cable and satellite broadcasting. Looks at Europe, America, Islam and the Orient. David Morley And Kevin Robins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.