Human Identity And Identification

Author : Rebecca Gowland,Timothy James Upton Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1107233755

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Human Identity and Identification by Rebecca Gowland,Timothy James Upton Thompson Pdf

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between the body, environment and society. Reflecting upon these developments, this book examines the role of the body in human identification, in the forging of identities, and the ways in which it embodies our social worlds. The approach is integrative, taking a uniquely biological perspective and reflecting on current discourse in the social sciences. With particular reference to bioarchaeology and forensic science, the authors focus on the construction and categorisation of the body within scientific and popular discourse, examining its many tissues, from the outermost to the innermost, from the skin to DNA. Synthesising two, traditionally disparate, strands of research, this is a valuable contribution to research on human identification and the embodiment of identity."

Author : Rebecca Gowland,Timothy James Upton Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521885911

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Human Identity and Identification by Rebecca Gowland,Timothy James Upton Thompson Pdf

This book offers an overview of human identity and identification, examining the whole body by integrating biological and social sciences and theories.

Author : Rebecca Gowland,Tim Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139619189

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Human Identity and Identification by Rebecca Gowland,Tim Thompson Pdf

Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between the body, environment and society. Reflecting upon these developments, this book examines the role of the body in human identification, in the forging of identities, and the ways in which it embodies our social worlds. The approach is integrative, taking a uniquely biological perspective and reflecting on current discourse in the social sciences. With particular reference to bioarchaeology and forensic science, the authors focus on the construction and categorisation of the body within scientific and popular discourse, examining its many tissues, from the outermost to the innermost, from the skin to DNA. Synthesising two, traditionally disparate, strands of research, this is a valuable contribution to research on human identification and the embodiment of identity.

Author : Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443865593

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Culture and Power by Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo,Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martin-Albo Pdf

Questions of identity and identification are among the most important evolving concerns of contemporary cultural studies. Through processes of personal identification with discursively constructed subject positions, identities emerge across a wide range of cultural practices in the course of social interactions involving the use of language and other semiotic systems manifested in cultural artefacts of various kinds. The present collection includes a selection of papers on the topic of identity and identification in cultural studies today. Incorporating theoretical contributions and practical case studies, this monograph adds to contemporary debates on identity-forging practices from various theoretical positions in different social, historic and national contexts. The chapters of this volume range from overtly theoretical discussions on the construction of identities and subjectivities in post-modernity, to examinations of the crucial role of (print) media in identity-construction and -representation processes in contemporary social formations through an insight into other key issues in cultural studies, such as gender politics and the construction of femininities, the hybridization of identities in the context of postcolonial work, and the interplay between collective identities and discourses on nation.

Author : Rex Ferguson,Melissa M. Littlefield,James Purdon
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271091372

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The Art of Identification by Rex Ferguson,Melissa M. Littlefield,James Purdon Pdf

Since the mid-nineteenth century, there has been a notable acceleration in the development of the techniques used to confirm identity. From fingerprints to photographs to DNA, we have been rapidly amassing novel means of identification, even as personal, individual identity remains a complex chimera. The Art of Identification examines how such processes are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation. Against the backdrop of an unstable modernity and the rapid rise and expansion of identificatory techniques, this volume makes the case that identity and identification are mutually imbricated and that our best understanding of both concepts and technologies comes through the interdisciplinary analysis of science, bureaucratic infrastructures, and cultural artifacts. With contributions from literary critics, cultural historians, scholars of film and new media, a forensic anthropologist, and a human bioarcheologist, this book reflects upon the relationship between the bureaucratic, scientific, and technologically determined techniques of identification and the cultural contexts of art, literature, and screen media. In doing so, it opens the interpretive possibilities surrounding identification and pushes us to think about it as existing within a range of cultural influences that complicate the precise formulation, meaning, and reception of the concept. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Dorothy Butchard, Patricia E. Chu, Jonathan Finn, Rebecca Gowland, Liv Hausken, Matt Houlbrook, Rob Lederer, Andrew Mangham, Victoria Stewart, and Tim Thompson.

Author : Jim Harper
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781933995366

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Identity Crisis by Jim Harper Pdf

The advance of identification technology-biometrics, identity cards, surveillance, databases, dossiers-threatens privacy, civil liberties, and related human interests. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, demands for identification in the name of security have increased. In this insightful book, Jim Harper takes readers inside identification-a process everyone uses every day but few people have ever thought about. Using stories and examples from movies, television, and classic literature, Harper dissects identification processes and technologies, showing how identification works when it works and how it fails when it fails. Harper exposes the myth that identification can protect against future terrorist attacks. He shows that a U.S. national identification card, created by Congress in the REAL ID Act, is a poor way to secure the country or its citizens. A national ID represents a transfer of power from individuals to institutions, and that transfer threatens liberty, enables identity fraud, and subjects people to unwanted surveillance. Instead of a uniform, government-controlled identification system, Harper calls for a competitive, responsive identification and credentialing industry that meets the mix of consumer demands for privacy, security, anonymity, and accountability. Identification should be a risk-reducing strategy in a social system, Harper concludes, not a rivet to pin humans to governmental or economic machinery.

Author : Christopher C. Knight
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317120049

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Human Identity at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Religion by Christopher C. Knight Pdf

Humans are unique in their ability to reflect on themselves. Recently a number of scholars have pointed out that human self-conceptions have a history. Ideas of human nature in the West have always been shaped by the interplay of philosophy, theology, science, and technology. The fast pace of developments in the latter two spheres (neuroscience, genetics, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering) call for fresh reflections on what it means, now, to be human, and for theological and ethical judgments on how we might shape our own destiny in the future. The leading scholars in this book offer fresh contributions to the lively quest for an account of ourselves that does justice to current developments in theology, science, technology, and philosophy.

Author : Andrew D. Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192561947

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The Oxford Handbook of Identities in Organizations by Andrew D. Brown Pdf

Conceived as the meanings that individuals attach to their selves, a substantial stockpile of theory related to identities accumulated across the arts, social sciences, and humanities over many decades continues to nourish contemporary research on self-identities in organizations. In times which are more reflexive, narcissistic, and fluid, the identities of participants in organizations are increasingly less fixed and less certain, making identity issues both more salient and more interesting. Particular attention has been given to processes of identity construction, often styled 'identity work'. Research has focused on how, why, and when such processes occur, and their implications for organizing and individual, group, and organizational outcomes. This has resulted in a burgeoning stream of research from discursive, dramaturgical, symbolic, socio-cognitive, and psychodynamic perspectives that most often casts individuals' efforts to fabricate identities as intentional, relational, and consequential. Seemingly intractable debates centred on the nature of identities - their relative stability or fluidity, whether they are best regarded as coherent or fractured, positive (or not), and how they are fabricated within relations of power - combined with other conceptual issues continue to invigorate the field. However, these debates have also led to some scepticism regarding the future potential of identities research. Yet as the chapters in this Handbook demonstrate, there are considerable grounds for optimism that identity, as root metaphor, nexus concept, and means to bridge levels of analysis has significant potential to generate multiple compelling streams of theorizing in organization and management studies.

Author : David DeGrazia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 0511299346

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Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia Pdf

When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address it, they often have in mind narrative identity: which characteristics of a particular person are salient to her self-conception? This book develops accounts of both senses of identity.

Author : Richard Jenkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134060948

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Social Identity by Richard Jenkins Pdf

This third edition builds on the international success of previous editions, offering an easy access critical introduction to social science theories of identity, for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates. All of the previous chapters have been updated and extra material has been added where relevant, for example, on globalization. Two new chapters have been added; one addresses the debate about whether identity matters, discussing, for example, Brubaker; the second reviews the postmodern approach to identity. The text is informed by relevant topical examples throughout and, as with earlier editions, the emphasis is on sociology, anthropology and social psychology; on the interplay between relationships of similarity and difference; on interaction; on the categorization of others as well as self-identification; and on power, institutions and organizations.

Author : Heinz Lichtenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015002385972

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The Dilemma of Human Identity by Heinz Lichtenstein Pdf

Author : Harold W. Noonan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134482139

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Personal Identity by Harold W. Noonan Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the nature of the self and its relation to the body, this title places the problem of personal identity in the context of more general puzzles about identity, and discusses the major related theories.

Author : David DeGrazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521825610

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Human Identity and Bioethics by David DeGrazia Pdf

When philosophers address personal identity, they usually explore numerical identity: what are the criteria for a person's continuing existence? When non-philosophers address personal identity, they often have in mind narrative identity: Which characteristics of a particular person are salient to her self-conception? This book develops accounts of both senses of identity, arguing that both are normatively important, and is unique in its exploration of a range of issues in bioethics through the lens of identity. Defending a biological view of our numerical identity and a framework for understanding narrative identity, DeGrazia investigates various issues for which considerations of identity prove critical: the definition of death; the authority of advance directives in cases of severe dementia; the use of enhancement technologies; prenatal genetic interventions; and certain types of reproductive choices. He demonstrates the power of personal identity theory to illuminate issues in bioethics as they bring philosophical theory to life.

Author : Nikola Stojkoski
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781622733798

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Essay on Human Reason: On the Principle of Identity and Difference by Nikola Stojkoski Pdf

The nature of human reason is one of the thorniest of mysteries in philosophy. The reason appears in many specific forms within general areas such as cognition, thinking, experiencing beauty, and moral judgment. These forms are “perfectly” known in philosophy, yet an unknown pattern has been noticed which shows us that they are all a variation of the same theme: truth is an identity relation between the “thought” and “reality”; justice is an identity relation between the given and the deserved; beauty is an identity relation as rhyme is an identity relation between the final sounds of words; rhythm is an identity relation between time intervals; symmetry is an identity relation between two halves; proportion is an identity relation between two ratios; anaphora is an identity relation between the initial words. Particular things are identities in themselves and universals are identities between particulars. One idea associates another idea identical to it; an analogy is an identity between relations; induction is an identification between the known and unknown instances; and all the logic rests on the law of identity. What is common for all of them is the nature of reason itself.

Author : William Bloom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521447844

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Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations by William Bloom Pdf

Drawing on Freud, Mead, Erikson, Parsons and Habermas, William Bloom relates mass psychological processes to international relations.