Identities in Flux

Since the first oil crisis of the 1970s, the entire world has been swept up in an enormous economic and technological paradigm shift, resulting in a frayed social safety net, job insecurity, and a shrinking middle class. Deregulation at various levels, instigated by the policies of Margaret Thatcher...

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Published inBeing Contemporary: French Literature, Culture and Politics Today p. 67
Main Author Régine Robin
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Liverpool University Press 26.01.2016
Subjects
Anthropology
Armed conflict
Behavioral sciences
Capitalism
Communitarianism
Cultural identity
Economic theory
Economics
Ethnic identity
Ethnicity
Ethnology
Group identity
Host country
Human geography
Human migration
Human societies
Immigration
Military science
Multiculturalism
National identity
Political identity
Political science
Psychology
Social attitudes
Social change
Social dynamics
Social integration
Social organization
Social psychology
Social sciences
Sociology
War
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Summary:Since the first oil crisis of the 1970s, the entire world has been swept up in an enormous economic and technological paradigm shift, resulting in a frayed social safety net, job insecurity, and a shrinking middle class. Deregulation at various levels, instigated by the policies of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, favored the trend toward a capitalism marked by big finance and an all-powerful stock market, all of which has given way to what has come to be called globalization. Everyone recalls Regis Debray’s famous line regarding May ’68: ‘Fallait-il se rêver maoïste pour devenir américain?’¹ Debray has been a
ISBN:1781382638
9781781382639