Migrancy, Culture, Identity

by Chambers,Iain

• ISBN13: 9780415088022
• ISBN10: 041508802X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-01-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InMigrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers shows how--as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories--we realize our sense of place and identity. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the realistic eye of social commentary to the scientific approach of the cultural anthropologist to the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and World Music. Migrancy, Culture and Identitytakes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of history, culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the West's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge and cultural identity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
An Impossible Homecoming	p. 1
Migrant Landscapes	p. 9
The Aural Walk	p. 49
Desiring Machines	p. 54
The Broken World: Whose Centre, Whose Periphery?	p. 67
Cities Without Maps	p. 92
The Wound and the Shadow	p. 115
Bibliography	p. 142
Index	p. 151
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