Ambiguities of Transnational Identities: Divergent Convergence and Convergent Divergence between Ethnicising and Cosmopolitanism

Pries, L

Ambiguities of Transnational Identities: Divergent Convergence and Convergent Divergence between Ethnicising and Cosmopolitanism

Pries, L

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Publisher:: UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
Publication Type:: Recording, Oral
Issue Date:: 2009-03-05

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dc.contributor.author	Pries, L
dc.date.accessioned	2009-11-19T23:56:07Z
dc.date.accessioned	2012-12-15T03:12:46Z
dc.date.available	2009-11-19T23:56:07Z
dc.date.available	2012-12-15T03:12:46Z
dc.date.issued	2009-03-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19872
dc.description	Audio recording. Running time 57 minutes 33 seconds. Original held UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre, Level 3, 645 Harris Street Sydney	en
dc.description.abstract	The concept of identity as the awareness of the Self and the Other implicates the notion of a more or less explicitly perceived and felt perception of continuity in time and homogeneity in space. As the two aspects of personal and of social identity are inextricably interconnected, identity as a societal and as a scientific concept is an outcome of the ideas of humanism and of the process of modernisation. In the era of reflexive modernisation the idea of identity is challenged in social practice as well as in social sciences. Notions like multiple, transitory or hybrid identity and identity as ‘politics if belonging’ indicate their multiple levels, their dynamics in time, their heterogeneity in space, as well as their incoherence in spite of homogeneity, their discourse character, and their relation to interests and negotiations. In this general context, the paper focuses on two related specific aspects of identity: the process of transnationalisation of identities and the relation of identities to the frame of reference of humanism. It is argued (1) that transnational identities always existed as marginal phenomena but now become a general feature, and (2) that this leads neither to a segmented ethnicising nor to a generalised simple humanism as cosmopolitism. These main arguments are developed proposing different types of humanisms and the notion of divergent convergence and convergent divergence using the example of citizenship.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	UTS Cosmopolitan Civil Societies Research Centre
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Public Lecture 2009
dc.relation.replaces	http://hdl.handle.net/2100/937
dc.subject	society	en
dc.subject	civil	en
dc.subject	ethnicity	en
dc.subject	identity	en
dc.subject	cosmopolitan	en
dc.subject	transnational	en
dc.title	Ambiguities of Transnational Identities: Divergent Convergence and Convergent Divergence between Ethnicising and Cosmopolitanism	en
dc.type	Recording, oral	en
utslib.copyright.status	open_access

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The concept of identity as the awareness of the Self and the Other implicates the notion of a more or less explicitly perceived and felt perception of continuity in time and homogeneity in space. As the two aspects of personal and of social identity are inextricably interconnected, identity as a societal and as a scientific concept is an outcome of the ideas of humanism and of the process of modernisation. In the era of reflexive modernisation the idea of identity is challenged in social practice as well as in social sciences. Notions like multiple, transitory or hybrid identity and identity as ‘politics if belonging’ indicate their multiple levels, their dynamics in time, their heterogeneity in space, as well as their incoherence in spite of homogeneity, their discourse character, and their relation to interests and negotiations. In this general context, the paper focuses on two related specific aspects of identity: the process of transnationalisation of identities and the relation of identities to the frame of reference of humanism. It is argued (1) that transnational identities always existed as marginal phenomena but now become a general feature, and (2) that this leads neither to a segmented ethnicising nor to a generalised simple humanism as cosmopolitism. These main arguments are developed proposing different types of humanisms and the notion of divergent convergence and convergent divergence using the example of citizenship.

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