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I S SUE S

in CULTURAL and MEDIA STUDIES

SERIES EDITOR: STUART ALLAN

I S SU E S

in CULTURAL and MEDIA STUDIES

Identity and Culture

Narratives of Difference and Belonging

Chris Weedon

• Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from?

• How does culture produce and challenge identities?

In Identity and Culture Chris Weedon looks at how different cultural narratives and

practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic,

‘postcolonial’ societies. The book:

• Uses examples from history, politics, fiction and the visual to examine the social

power relations that create subject positions and forms of identity

• Analyses how cultural texts and practices offer new forms of identity and agency

that subvert dominant ideologies

Identity and Culture encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular

focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by

racism. It is a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary

studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies.

Chris Weedon is Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory at Cardiff University.

She teaches cultural theory and cultural criticism and has published widely on feminist

theory, poststructuralism, cultural politics and women’s writing. Her books include

Feminist Practice and Poststructuralist Theory (1987), Cultural Politics (1995), Contemporary

Women’s Writing in German (1997) and Feminism,Theory and the Politics of Difference (1999).

Identity and

Culture

Narratives of Difference and Belonging

Cover illustration: Charlotte Combe

Cover design: Barker/Hilsdon

IDENTITY AND CULTURE:

NARRATIVES OF DIFFERENCE

AND BELONGING

I SSUES

in CULTURAL and MEDIA STUDIES

Series Editor: Stuart Allan

Published titles

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Modernity and Postmodern Culture

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Cities and Urban Cultures

Deborah Stevenson

Cultural Citizenship

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Sport, Culture and the Media, 2nd edition

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Culture on Display

Bella Dicks

Television, Globalization and Cultural

Identities

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Critical Readings: Media and Gender

Edited by Cynthia Carter and

Linda Steiner

Ethnic Minorities and the Media

Edited by Simon Cottle

Critical Readings: Media and Audiences

Edited by Virginia Nightingale and

Karen Ross

Media and Audiences

Karen Ross and Virginia Nightingale

Cinema and Cultural Modernity

Gill Branston

Compassion, Morality and the Media

Keith Tester

Critical Readings: Sport, Culture and the

Media

Edited by David Rowe

Rethinking Cultural Policy

Jim McGuigan

Masculinities and Culture

John Beynon

Cultures of Popular Music

Andy Bennett

Media, Risk and Science

Stuart Allan

Media, Politics and the Network Society

Robert Hassan

Violence and the Media

Cynthia Carter and C. Kay Weaver

Identity and Culture: Narratives of

Difference and Belonging

Chris Weedon

Moral Panics and the Media

Chas Critcher

IDENTITY AND CULTURE

Chris Weedon

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First published 2004

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ISBN 0 335 20086 9 (pb) 0 335 20087 7 (hb)

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