interaction between their consumption of western media/ culture and local Native traditions and customs. The article poses the … question, to what extent does western youth culture as expressed in TV, film, music and sport get taken up and moulded around a … more contemporary Native youth identity? Utilising theoretical notions of hybridity and hegemony, and a mixed methodology …

nationalism, and more recent identity politics, are part of nationalist structures. They involve either the exclusion of other … forms of state, or of other orders of states, or the intensification of identity as it exists. …

The Republic of Ireland became a country of net immigration for the first time in 1996 and a large body of literature … integration. However, there is a paucity of sociological literature on the effect of unprecedented immigration at local or … community level. This article addresses this deficit by demonstrating how the social identity of a place, home to a particularly …

opened up the question of identity in Irish public culture. This paper examines the processes involved in mediating who … Northern Ireland and net immigration following decades of emigration, represent critical moments in Irish history that have … what it says about 21st century Ireland. To develop this argument, I firstly posit identity construction as processual …

AbstractIn southern European countries, where immigration is a recent phenomenon, cultural and religious diversity …

This paper explores the meaning of the concept of generational identity for a specific cohort of individuals born in … members' sense of identity and specifically asked 'Do you think of yourself as belonging to a particular generation?' Cohort …/political events. Indeed the majority of them do not have a strong generational identity and might be thought of as a 'passive …

as a basis for an identity that may be remembered over a sustained period of time. For the parent of a stillborn child … there is no such basis and the claim for a continuing social identity for their son or daughter is precarious. Drawing on … interviews with the parents of 22 stillborn children, this paper explores the identity work performed by parents concerned to …