Identity and social change

The volume is divided into two parts. The first explores identity and subjectivity in light of economic changes, new technologies, consumerism, and globalization, while the second focuses on the much-discussed question of identity dissolution. Bauman examines the effects of consumerism on exeperiences of time, distance, and place. Drawing together disparate discourses of globalization and the body, Harvey considers the explosive growth of the wage labor system worldwide and its consequences for worker subjectivity and a global proletariat. Featherstone outlines a rethinking of citizenship and identity-formation in light of the realities of globalization and new information technologies.