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Introduction / Krista Cowman -- Radical culture and local identity : Berlin, 1871-1920 / Dick Geary -- "An affront to the sensibilities of all thinking Canadians!" : the makings of a communist town council and the community behind it, Blairmore, Canada / Kyle R. Franz -- Trade unionism, militancy and port communities in early twentieth-century Britain / Matt Vaughan Wilson -- "Making areas strong for socialism and peace" : Labour women and radical politics in Bristol, 1906-1939 / June Hannam -- How local is local? : the cultural and imperial politics of Georgian provincial theatre / David Worrall -- Popular songs, social struggles and conflictual identities in Mestre-Marghera (1970s-1980s) / Pietro Di Paola -- The myth of the Jarrow Crusade and the making of a local labour culture / Matt Perry -- Contesting radical cultures : the cartoons of J.M. Staniforth of the Western mail / Chris Williams -- Local radicals abroad : the view to and from the Caribbean in the 1920s and 1930s / Mary Chamberlain -- Ethnicity, place and protest : South African perspectives on urban radical cultures and local identities / Vivian Bickford-Smith -- Radical cultures and local identities : the north-east labour movement's response to the Spanish Civil War / Lewis Mates -- The local, the radical and the popular : rubbish, recycling and local government in Britain and Spain / John K. Walton.

International audience ; The decision to go to war by the government of the day is assumed to be a decision taken on behalf of all citizens of the nation, conceived as a collective united by a harmony of interests. Yet in the case of the Iraq War, there is clearly no unified voice of support from the British people. There is division between the state and its citizens, and the latter also reflect the multilayered identities of an increasingly multicultural society. How do individuals displaying multilayered identities relate politically, socially and culturally to the abstract, unified idea of Britishness, and how does this impact upon perceptions concerning the legitimacy of state action?

The decision to go to war by the government of the day is assumed to be a decision taken on behalf of all citizens of the nation, conceived as a collective united by a harmony of interests. Yet in the case of the Iraq War, there is clearly no unified voice of support from the British people. There is division between the state and its citizens, and the latter also reflect the multilayered identities of an increasingly multicultural society. How do individuals displaying multilayered identities relate politically, socially and culturally to the abstract, unified idea of Britishness, and how does this impact upon perceptions concerning the legitimacy of state action?

Explores how gender identity penetrates the process of reconciling social with personal identities in the context of the mature undergraduate, drawing on participant observation, personal experience as a mature student, & unstructured interviews with 58 British men & women, ages 23+. It is found that most men explained their attendance at college in terms of careers, while women tended to stress their need for involvement, interest, & identity separate from the family. This is taken to indicate that issues of identity were more paramount for mature women entering into higher education. Further, women tended to experience confusion in their efforts to reconcile various elements of their social identities & to blame themselves for failing to do so adequately. This pronounced identity confusion among the women is addressed in terms of their different location in the social structure, particularly their roles as mothers. Postgraduation interviews indicate that the expression of a new identity gained through college was frustrated when women returned to their everyday lives at home, largely because of practical, material, & structural factors. 11 References. D. M. Smith

Ghana's current image of peace and stability is worthy of attention. Compared with its neighbours, Ghana seems to be going through a period of relative stability. Nevertheless the periodic flaring up of conflicts into serious violence has become a source of worry. The paper is an account of the emergence of particular identities and inequalities and their role in promoting instability, conflict and violence. The paper analysed the different elements of the Ghanaian political economy which encourage or discourage particular patterns of peaceful co-existence and conflict. Understanding the emergence and dynamics of certain identities in any place is complicated by a number of factors. Analysts who consider identities such as ethnicity to be primordial are correct in that identities are not simple to assume and discard. Inequalities tend to arise principally out of differences in economic development and to some extent endowment in natural resources. A glaring pattern of inequality in Ghana manifests itself in the North-South dichotomy in development. A number of studies have emphasized the broad disparity between the North and the South of the country in terms of levels of economic development and the general quality of life resulting in the relative backwardness of Northern Ghana in relation to Southern Ghana. Whereas this major divide has never generated conflict in Ghana, it is possible to identify different categories of continuous conflict, some of it violent. These includes inter-ethnic conflicts, mostly centred on control over land and other resources and sovereignty issues; intra ethnic conflicts around land ownership, competing uses of land and the siting of institutions and services, but mostly about chieftaincy succession; and conflicts between state institutions, such as the police and communities, over policing and law and order issues arising from communal conflicts and inter-personal disputes. Although such conflicts are in general similar to other conflicts that arise in the sub-region, it can be ...

Science instruction has largely avoided engaging students in political issues. Recent scholarship is drawing attention to the ways in which students' political identities influence science learning and the need for science learning that engages with students' political beliefs and values. In this Current Insights, I explore emerging work that provides a launching point for research and teaching at the intersection of political and science learning.

The prominence of ethnonational identities and movements is of increasing interest and concern in today's world. But the nature and importance of these identities remain ill understood. Ethnonational Identities breaks significant new ground by exploring the complex dimensions of ethnonational identity claims, their political mobilisation, and a wide variety of comparative contexts in which they are found. Including case studies from the Québécois to the Mäori and from Kashmiri nationalism to interethnic competition in the Caribbean, it should be read by all those with an interest or involvement in the fields of ethnicity, nationalism and identity politics.

An award-winning sociologist, Charles Tilly has been equally influential in explaining politics, history, and how societies change. Tilly's newest book tackles fundamental questions about the nature of personal, political, and national identities and their linkage to big events—revolutions, social movements, democratization, and other processes of political and social change. Tilly focuses in this book on the role of stories, as means of creating personal identity, but also as explanations, true or false, of political tensions and realities. He uses well-known examples from around the world—the Zapatista rebellion, Hindu-Muslim conflicts, and other examples in which nationalism and other forms of group identity are politically pivotal. Tilly writes with the immediacy of a journalist, but the profound insight of a great theorist.

In what ways do national currencies contribute to a sense of national identity? Building on the insights of 19th-and early 20th-century observers, the author suggests that national currencies might foster national identities in five ways: (a) providing a vehicle for nationalist imagery that constructs a sense of collective tradition and memory, (b) acting as a common medium of social communication that may facilitate the "communicative efficiency" of members of the nation and encourage similar frameworks of thought, (c) creating collective monetary experiences that can bolster the feeling of membership in a national community of shared fate, (d) contributing to a sense of popular sovereignty, at least insofar as the national currency is managed in a way that corresponds with the people's wishes, and (e) strengthening the kind of quasi-religious faith that is associated with nationalism, especially when the currency is managed in a stable manner.

Social impacts associated with new telecommunication innovations greatly affect both globalisation and territorial identities. Apparently contradictory trends bring with them elements of rapid social change and political uncertainty. This chapter reflects on the conjunction of both dimensions of the local and the global, and carries out a prescription of the progressive consolidation of a new cosmopolitan localism. A theoretical review of the concept of multiple identities precedes a subsequent discussion on the effects of globalisation, the extension of market values, and the relative loss of power by the nation states. Subsequently, the focus is set on the growing role played by the global mesocommunities. These can be small nation-states within regional supranational blocks, stateless minority nations, sub-state regions and large conurbations, and seem to be better equipped to maximise developments related to global action and local identities. References made to the European Union context seek to illustrate how the interaction of the processes of bottom-up transnationalisation and top-down devolution of powers have made possible a more effective access of civil society to multi-level decision-making. The new cosmopolitan localism translates into a growing adjustment between the particular and the general in the gradual development of Europeanisation. ; Peer reviewed

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND MAP -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Historical Legacies -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Identity Choices -- 4 West Indians at Work -- 5 Encountering American Race Relations -- 6 Intergenerational Dynamics -- 7 Segregated Neighborhoods and Schools -- 8 Identities of the Second Generation -- 9 Immigrants and American Race Relations -- Appendix: Notes on Methodology -- Notes -- Index