Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Introduction: Who Needs 'Identity'?; Chapter 2 -- From Pilgrim to Tourist -- or a Short History of Identity; Chapter 3 -- Enabling Identity? Biology, Choice and the New Reproductive Technologies; Chapter 4 -- Culture's In-Between; Chapter 5 -- Interrupting Identities: Turkey/Europe; Chapter 6 -- Identity and Cultural Studies: Is that all there is?; Chapter 7 -- Music and Identity; Chapter 8 -- Identity, Genealogy, History; Chapter 9 -- Organizing Identity: Entrepreneurial Governance and Public Management
Chapter 10 -- The Citizen and the Man About TownIndex
Summary
Hall offers a wide-ranging exploration of the issues surrounding cultural identity. He outlines the reasons why the question of identity is so compelling and yet so problematic. Outstanding contributors then interrogate different dimensions of the crisis of identity providing both theoretical and substantive insights into different approaches to understanding identity
