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Editorial
'Contributors
explore the continuing relevance of identity in twenty-first century politics
and culture: changing patterns of identity formation; the continuing problems
of English national identity; the links between work, consumption and
identity; the problems for those on the receiving end of identity wars;
England's morbid obsession with empire, and its emerging multiculture
of conviviality; G.K. Chesterton's regressive model of Englishness; the
spate of recent attacks on multiculturalism; and the relationships between
individuals and society as understood in complexity theory.
Soundings 29 also includes Sarah Benton on politicians and truth; John Grahl on globalisation; Edward Fullbrook on post-autistic economics; John Callaghan on politics after Thatcher; Steve Munby on living with New Labour; Marilyn Strathern on audit and inspection; and Andrew Pearmain on memory and the left; plus poems and reviews.