Identities on the Move
Published on 12. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
515 pages
978-3-0343-1296-7 (ISBN)
Description
This book contains selected papers from the meetings «To think the Identity» and «Identities on the move» held in the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida) during 2010. The aim is to understand the reasons that allow social cohesion throughout the creation of identities and its adaptation. Identity is individual and collective, momentary and secular, apparently contradictory terms that can only coexist and fructify if they entail a constant adaptation. Thus, in a changing world, the identities are always on the move and the continuity of society requires a permanent move. Values, Culture, Language and History show the societies in permanent evolution, and demand an interdisciplinary perspective for studying. Attending this scope, outstanding historians, sociologists, linguistics and scientists offer here a diachronic and interdisciplinary approach to this phenomenon: how men and women have been combining the identity and the move in order to feel save into a social life from Middle Ages to current days, and how different items, in our present society, built the framework of identities.
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Person
Flocel Sabaté is professor in Medieval History and head of the Institute for Research into Identities and Society (University of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain). He served as invited professor in universities such as Paris-1, Poitiers, ENS-Lettres et Sciences (Lyon), Universidad Nacional de Mexico or Yale, and led international research projects from European institutions such as the European Science Foundation or Marie Curie Actions. He belongs to more than fifty boards for scientific journals and series and has written more than three hundred research works, including different books about medieval society.
Content
Contents: Flocel Sabate: Identities on the move - Kaspar Klavins : Le trace de l'identite europeene de l'Espagne aux Pays Baltes - Felicitas Schmieder: Travelling in the 'Orbis Christianus' and beyond (Thirteenth-Fifteenth Century): What makes the difference? - Lesley Twomey: De aquestes raons de la Senyora, los apostols e Magdalena e les altres dones prengueren molta consolacio: Establishing Female Identity through the Virgin's words in the 'Vita Christi' of <<Sor Isabel de Villena>> - Gerard Nahon : Les juifs a Recife 1630-1654. Un modele evanescent? - Juan Sisinio Perez: The construction of Spanish national identity - Paul Aubert: Spain/France: Reciprocal Images during the Restoration Period (1875-1931) - Caroline Barrera: Identities on the Move. Foreign and Colonial Students in France (19th c.-1960s) - Joaquim Capdevila/Teresa Seres/Sonia Rubio: Literature and Shows of Modern Customs in Catalan 'Ethnotypism' and the creation of some modern imaginary of popular catalanity - Josep Maria Figueres: Exile in Mexico and Catalan identity. Catalonia in the imaginarium of first generation exiles in Mexico (1939-2005) - Maria Carmen Figuerola: Malika Mokeddem or the Recreation of a New Mestization - Pere Sola: <<In the Name of Identity: violence and the Need of Belong>> by Amin Maaloof: a reflection on the notion of identity - Montserrat Roser: Questions of artistic and personal identity in the interwar poetry J. V. Foix - Joan Julia-Mune: Will Major Languages Ruin Minor Languages? English and Chinese vs. Catalan and Occitan - M. Carme Junyent: Languages, links and identities in a society on the move - Teresa Sala/Lluis Samper/Xavier Burrial: Changing rural identity. Discourses on rurality in catalan school - Roberta Maierhofer: Aging as Continuity and Change: Age as Personal and Social Transformation - Jorge Wagensberg: Individuals in front of individualities: an identities' conflict - Hugh O'Donnell: Talking the talk? Language and Identity in the European Soup Oper - Daniel-Henri Pageaux : L'imagologie face a la question de l'identite - Thibault Courcelle : Quelle identite europeene ? Sentiments d'appartenance et representations de l'Europe en mouvement dans la construction europeenne - Maria Saur: Multi-culturism of Many-colours-ism. The 'colours' of the Presidents Obama and Khama - Michel Wieviorka : Les mutations du racisme contemporain.