Free Download Ana-Maria Baciu, "Fairy Tales and the Shift in Identity Poetics from Modernism to Postmodernism"
English | ISBN: 1527522865 | 2023 | 179 pages | PDF | 898 KB
The book reveals the historical change in the function of the generic form of the fairy tale: at the beginning of the twentieth century, fairy tales are no longer written or read for their stimulus to the imagination or their nostalgia towards past times, but with a political end in view: to define a nation's identity meant to justify and support claims to a unitary state (Romania) or an independent state (Ireland). As such, this book investigates the interweave of poetics and politics at the time of the rise of modernist nationalism at the margins of Europe.

Free Download Alternative Spaces, Identity and Language in Afrofuturist Writing
Tugba Akman Kaplan
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1527563448 | 216 Pages | True PDF | 2.44 MB

Free Download The Spectrum of Gender Identity in the Workplace
Released 1/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Skill Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 56m | Size: 193 MB
Understanding the complexities of gender can help in efforts to foster a more inclusive work environment. How is gender defined? Who defines it? How has the definition changed over time? These questions and many more point far beyond the binary. Join instructor Cory Wade in this approachable new course that explores the concept of gender, how it's historically been defined, how it's being redefined in today's world of work, and how to create an environment where everyone has a voice and feels a sense of belonging in the workplace, no matter how they identify as a person. Along the way, Cory offers insights on core concepts such as the gender spectrum, gender expression, gender affirmation, the origin of gender, gender politics, gender variant empathy, common misconceptions of gender, allyship, and more.

Free Download Identity - January 2024
English | 76 pages | True PDF | 23.60 MB

Free Download Colette Soler, "Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter"
English | ISBN: 0367342030 | 2023 | 112 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1040 KB + 3 MB
Towards Identity in the Psychoanalytic Encounter addresses the theme of identification and identity in the psychoanalytic clinic as elaborated by Jacques Lacan over the course of his teaching.

Free Download Roger McNamara, "Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature"
English | ISBN: 1498548938 | 2018 | 198 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Secularism and the Crisis of Minority Identity in Postcolonial Literature examines how writers from religious and ethnic minority communities (Anglo-Indians, Burghers, Dalits, Muslims, and Parsis) in India and Sri Lanka engage secularism through novels, short stories, and autobiographies. Given the rise of Hindu nationalism in India and Sinhala-Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, it would seem obvious that minorities would rally around secularism (the separation of church and state). However, this book argues that the relationship between minorities and secularism is extremely ambivalent. On the one hand, it shows how writers belonging to oppressed communities can deploy secularism as a mode of critique (secular criticism) to challenge the ideologies of dominant groups-the nation, upper-castes, and religious hierarchies. On the other hand, it examines how these writers reveal that other aspects of secularism (secularization and secular time) are responsible for creating essentialized identities that have not only exacerbated relationships between majorities and minorities and between minority groups, but have also created tension within minority groups themselves. Turing to aesthetics and religious faith, these writers attempt to undermine secular social and cultural structures that are responsible for this crisis of minority identity.

Free Download Tom Brass, "Marxism Missing, Missing Marxism From Marxism to Identity Politics and Beyond "
English | ISBN: 9004445773 | 2021 | 314 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The book constitutes an attempt by Marxist political economy to extricate itself from mistaken attempts to conflate it with the cultural turn, identity politics, bourgeois economics, or varieties of populism and nationalism, together with the danger of not doing so.

Free Download Elizabeth Vihlen McGregor, "Jazz and Postwar French Identity: Improvising the Nation"
English | ISBN: 1498528767 | 2016 | 290 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the context of a shifting domestic and international status quo that was evolving in the decades following World War II, French audiences used jazz as a means of negotiating a wide range of issues that were pressing to them and to their fellow citizens. Despite the fact that jazz was fundamentally linked to the multicultural through its origins in the hands of African-American musicians, happenings within the French jazz public reflected much about France's postwar society. In the minds of many, jazz was connected to youth culture, but instead of challenging traditional gender expectations, the music tended to reinforce long-held stereotypes. French critics, musicians, and fans contended with the reality of American superpower strength and often strove to elevate their own country's stature in relation to the United States by finding fault with American consumer society and foreign policy aims. Jazz audiences used this music to condemn American racism and to support the American civil rights movement, expressing strong reservations about the American way of life. French musicians lobbied to create professional opportunities for themselves, and some went so far as to create a union that endorsed preferential treatment for French nationals.

Free Download Identity, Ontological Security and Europeanisation in Republika Srpska by Faris Kočan
English | PDF (True) | 2023 | 225 Pages | ISBN : 3031461681 | 6.3 MB
This book discusses the impact of the process of accession to the European Union (EU) - i.e. Europeanisation - on the formulation of the ethnic identity of Bosnian Serbs and the political identity of Republika Srpska (RS) in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The centrepiece of the book is an examination of how it is possible that the expected effect of Europeanisation on ethnic identities in a post-conflict environment - a transformation of ethnic identities through desecuritisation - does not materialise in the case of BiH and the RS. The book starts from the assumption that the political elite in the RS uses Europeanisation as a context for the securitization of two sources of threats - the internal and external Other. This prevents the transformation of ethnic identities in BiH, and as a result also the desecuritisation of antagonisms among the ethnic groups of BiH. The results show that any attempt at a more active engagement by the EU and international community was interpreted by the RS political elite as Bosniak agenda aimed against the RS. In this respect, the book demonstrates that BiH's EU accession process or a clearer EU perspective alone in scrutinized critical junctures did not outweigh the potential costs for the RS political elite if reforms aimed at creating a more functional BiH were to succeed. In all three analysed critical junctures, the political elite in RS presented motions for a more functional BiH as attempts to centralise the country and framed them as the beginning of the end for the RS as a political entity.

Free Download Nita Mathur, "Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity"
English | ISBN: 8132111273 | 2013 | 440 pages | EPUB | 1388 KB
This book offers analysis of articulation of consumer culture and modernity in everyday lives of people in a transnational framework. It pursues three broad themes: lifestyle choices and construction of modern identities; fashion and advertising; and subaltern concerns and moral subjectivities. It juxtaposes empirical studies with theoretical traditions in addressing questions such as: How do people imagine modernity and identity in consumer culture? What does modernity or 'being modern' mean to people in different societies? Are modernity and tradition antithetical to or develop an interface with each other? The chapters in the book trace manifestations and trajectories of consumer culture and modernity as they connect to develop a sense of renewed identity.