Identities on the Move

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• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9783035107029
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

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• Contents
• Flocel SABATÉ: Identities on the move 9
• Felicitas SCHMIEDER: Travelling in the Orbis Christianus and beyond (Thirteenth – Fifteenth Century): What makes the difference? 41
• Lesley TWOMEY: De aquestes raons de la Senyora, los apòstols e Magdalena e les altres dones prengueren molta consolació: Establishing Female Identity through the Virgin’s words in the Vita Christi of Sor Isabel de Villena 53
• Gérard NAHON: Les juifs portugais à Recife 1630-1654. Un modèle évanescent? 75
• Kaspars KLAVINS: Le tracé de l’identité européenne de l’Espagne aux Pays Baltes 95
• Juan Sisinio PÉREZ: The construction of Spanish national identity 111
• Paul AUBERT: Spain /France: Reciprocal Images during the Restoration Period (1875–1931) 147
• Caroline BARRERA: Identities on the Move, Foreign and Colonial Students in France (XIX century – 1960s) 185
• Joaquim CAPDEVILA, Teresa SERÉS and Sònia RUBIÓ: Literature and Shows of Modern Customs in Catalan. Ethnotypism and the creation of some modern imaginary of popular catalanity 199
• Montserrat ROSER: Questions of artistic and personal identity in the interwar poetry of J. V. Foix 267
• Josep M. FIGUERES: Exile in Mexico and Catalan identity. Catalonia in the imaginarium of first generation exiles in Mexico (1939-2005) 279
• Maria Carme FIGUEROLA: Malika Mokeddem or the Recreation of a New Mestization 303
• Pere SOLÀ: “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong” by Amin Maalouf; a reflection on the notion of identity 317
• Joan JULIÀ-MUNÉ: Will Major Languages Ruin Minor Languages? English and Chinese vs. Catalan and Occitan 331
• M. Carme JUNYENT: Languages, links and identities in a society on the move 355
• Teresa SALA, Lluís SAMPER and Xavier BURRIAL: Changing rural identity. Discourses on rurality in catalan schools 367
• Roberta MAIERHOFER: Aging as Continuity and Change: Age as Personal and Social Transformation 387
• Jorge WAGENSBERG: Individuals in front of individualities: an identities’ conflict 403
• Hugh O’DONNELL: Talking the talk? Language and Identity in the European Soap Opera 433
• Daniel-Henri PAGEAUX: L’imagologie face à la question de l’identité 455
• Thibault COURCELLE: Quelle identité européenne? Sentiments d’appartenance et représentations de l’Europe en mouvement dans la construction européenne 467
• Maria SAUR: Multi-culturalism or Many-colours-ism. The ‘Colours’ of the Presidents Obama and Khama 487
• Michel WIEVIORKA: Les mutations du racisme contemporain 503