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oapen-20.500.12657-313142022-04-26T12:26:56Z Cultivating political and public identity: Why plumage matters Barker, Rodney citizenship speech community politics identity politics dress religion food identity social cohesion bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTB Social & cultural history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory "Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the rational pursuit of material gain. Today, the fundamental importance of the cultivation and preservation of identity is finally re-emerging. In this book, Rodney Barker explores the rich fabric of speech, dress, diet and the built environment from which human identity is made. The colour of a scarf or the accent of a conversation can unite people or divide them, and the smallest detail can play its part in signalling who are allies and who are enemies. Identity simultaneously generates equality and inequality – it is both the engine of public life and the cause of its confusion and conflict – and a better understanding of its subtleties is crucial if we are to confront the tensions that it produces in society. Synthesising methods and ideas from numerous disciplines – including history, political science, anthropology, law and sociology – Barker presents a picture of human life as more than just a collection of material interests. His ultimate aim is to show that no human activity is trivial or meaningless, that everything counts and plumage matters." 2017-06-30 23:55 2019-12-03 08:32:13 2020-04-01T13:30:46Z 2020-04-01T13:30:46Z 2017 book 631396 OCN: 1030817497 9781526114600 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31314 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International XHTML5.zip Manchester University Press 10.26530/OAPEN_631396 10.26530/OAPEN_631396 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd 7686d2e3-7664-45eb-84d6-20eb8c4e1afa 9781526114600 272 London School of Economics and Political Science London School of Economics & Political Science open access
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"Throughout the twentieth century, everyone from Marxists to economic individualists assumed that social and political activity was driven by the rational pursuit of material gain. Today, the fundamental importance of the cultivation and preservation of identity is finally re-emerging. In this book, Rodney Barker explores the rich fabric of speech, dress, diet and the built environment from which human identity is made. The colour of a scarf or the accent of a conversation can unite people or divide them, and the smallest detail can play its part in signalling who are allies and who are enemies. Identity simultaneously generates equality and inequality – it is both the engine of public life and the cause of its confusion and conflict – and a better understanding of its subtleties is crucial if we are to confront the tensions that it produces in society.
Synthesising methods and ideas from numerous disciplines – including history, political science, anthropology, law and sociology – Barker presents a picture of human life as more than just a collection of material interests. His ultimate aim is to show that no human activity is trivial or meaningless, that everything counts and plumage matters."
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