from Part III - Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
In the context of globalization, post-modernity and transnationalism, identity, for most people, is no longer securely located in specific material environments. Yet the desire to 'ground' identity in place by acting in and on the material world remains, even as people shift between multiple locations. This chapter focuses considerson the materiality of identity, and on the relationship between agency, identity and place. It focuses particularly on place-based communities, for whom this relationship is fundamental, and who therefore exemplify the centrality of place in composing identity.
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