The Postnational Self
 


The Postnational Self

Belonging and Identity

Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort, editors

The Postnational Self

$25.00 paper
ISBN: 0-8166-3937-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3937-3

$75.00 cloth
ISBN: 0-8166-3936-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3936-6

 

A timely look at how our globalized era has reconfigured experiences of belonging.

What happens to a sense of belonging when national and regional governments, religious organizations, community groups, political parties, and corporations become unstable and incoherent, as they have in these nationalist and postnationalist times? From a richly interdisciplinary perspective, the authors examine notions of citizenship and cultural hybridization, migration and other forms of mobility, displacements and ethnic cleansing, and the nature of national belonging in a world turning ever more fluid, aided by transnational flows of capital, information, people, and ideas.

Contributors: Seyla Benhabib, John A. Hall, Ulf Hannerz, Jeffrey Herf, Michael Herzfeld, Richard Jenkins, Mark Juergensmeyer, Riva Kastoryano, Michèle Lamont, Benjamin Lee, Orvar Löfgren, Philip Schlesinger, Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal, Ray Taras, James Tully.

Ulf Hedetoft is professor of international studies at Aalborg University, Denmark. Mette Hjort is a senior lecturer in intercultural studies at Aalborg University and is currently associate profesor at the University of Hong Kong.

360 pages | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2002
Public Worlds Series, volume 10