Multiple Identities: A Phenomenology of Multicultural Communication - Couverture souple

Dhillon, Pradeep Ajit

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3631478348 ISBN 13 : 9783631478349

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, 1994

Synopsis

Using a lens forged by the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and world systems theory, the author examines the construction of a multiple set of identifications for the postcolonial self. These multiple identifications, in a world made multicultural through world economic processes like colonialism, provide the communicative networks around which identities are expressed and negotiated. The discussion rests on the concrete-historical praxis of the Jat Sikhs of Punjab, India. Through the institutions of education, agriculture, and the military, the Jat Sikhs were drawn into a multicultural world that gave rise to a multiple self. Focusing on this multiplicity goes some way towards explaining social and political conflict as it comes to coalesce around cultural issues. Moral dilemmas as well as political conflict arise from these multiple levels of identifications.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The dissertation was supervised by Prof. Nel Noddings at Standord University. At present the author is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang GmbH
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631478348
• ISBN 13: 9783631478349
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 206
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible