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Hajkowski, Thomas, David Morley, and Kevin Robins. "British Cultural Studies: Geography, Nationality, and Identity." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 35, no. 2 (2003): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4054201.

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Aughey, Arthur. "Questioning British Identity." Journal of Contemporary History 45, no. 2 (April 2010): 478–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009409356753.

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Manuel, Peter. "Chutney and Indo-Trinidadian cultural identity." Popular Music 17, no. 1 (January 1998): 21–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000000477.

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Since the early 1980s Indian diasporic communities have attained sufficient size, affluence, self-awareness and generational distance from South Asia to have created a set of popular music styles that are autonomous and distinctive rather than strictly derivative of Indian models. While the bhangra music of British Punjabis has attracted some scholarly and journalistic attention, chutney, a syncretic Indo-Caribbean popular music and dance idiom, is little known outside its own milieu. This article constitutes a preliminary socio-musical study of chutney.

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Dossa, Shiraz. "Profoundly British? immigrants, race, and identity." European Legacy 10, no. 2 (April 2005): 233–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1084877052000330138.

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McGuigan, Jim. "British Identity and ‘The People's Princess’." Sociological Review 48, no. 1 (February 2000): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-954x.00200.

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This article treats the popular response to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, as a manifestation of the cultural public sphere, by which is meant a symbolic space for affective communication and an emotional sense of democratic participation. The Diana phenomenon neither produced a ‘revolutionary moment’ nor, however, was it insignificant. Rather, it represented a vehicle for public debate on British identity, the role of the monarchy and, more diffusely, the conduct of personal relations. New Labour and feminist appropriations of Diana are examined in detail and related to a general consideration of the diverse and contested meanings of her life and death.

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Foster, Kevin. "Migrants, Asylum Seekers and British Identity." Third Text 20, no. 6 (November 2006): 683–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09528820601069599.

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Parekh, Bhikhu. "Being British." Government and Opposition 37, no. 3 (July 2002): 301–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1477-7053.00102.

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In This Article I Do Two Things. I Begin With A Brief Discussion of the nature of political community in general, and argue that a political community is defined and constituted by the common public commitments of its citizens. Its identity is political not ethnic or cultural in nature, an important distinction that is obscured by the term ‘national identity’ and often ignored in much of the discussion of it. Its identity has an inescapable moral content. Although the latter is often shared with other communities, what distinguishes a political community is the way in which it interprets and institutionally articulates these moral principles. I then apply this general analysis to Britain and suggest how we might best define its identity.

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Bechhofer, Frank, and David McCrone. "Choosing National Identity." Sociological Research Online 15, no. 3 (August 2010): 13–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2191.

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This paper examines national identity in England and Scotland, arguing that it is necessary to understand how people construe it instead of simply assuming that it is constructed from above by the state. It adds to qualitative data on this issue by discussing recent survey data, from the British and Scottish Social Attitudes surveys 2006, in which for the first time people are asked about their reasons for making a specific choice of national identity. In so doing it fleshes out the responses given to a well known survey question (the so-called ‘Moreno’ question) providing a greater understanding of what a large sample of people are saying when they make these territorial identity choices. The English and the Scots handle ‘national’ and ‘state’ identities differently, but the paper shows there is considerable similarity as regards reasons for choosing national identity. Both English and Scottish ‘nationals’, those placing greater weight on their ‘national’ as opposed to their ‘state’ identities, choose to do so mainly for cultural and institutional reasons. They are not making a ‘political’ statement about the break-up of Britain. At the British end of the scale, there are patterns in the English data which throw into doubt easy assertions about ‘being British’. Simply assuming, as some politicians and commentators do, that ‘British’ has singular meanings is unfounded. The future of the United Kingdom as presently constituted may lie in the hands of those who describe themselves as equally national (English or Scottish) and British. Devolution influences which national identity people choose in all three sets of national identity categories but these effects are sociologically most interesting in this group. Devolution seems to have encouraged them to stress the equality of the two nations in the British state, recognising that they are equal partners, that one can be equally proud of a national and a British identity, and that it is not necessary to choose one over the other.

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Dey, Bidit Lal, John M. T. Balmer, Ameet Pandit, and Mike Saren. "Selfie appropriation by young British South Asian adults." Information Technology & People 31, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 482–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-08-2016-0178.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how young British South Asian adults’ dual cultural identity is exhibited and reaffirmed through the appropriation of selfies. Design/methodology/approach The research adopts a qualitative perspective and utilises a combination of in-depth interviews and netnographic data. Findings The appropriation of the selfie phenomenon by young British South Asian adults reifies, endorses and reinforces their dual cultural identity. As such, their dual cultural identity is influenced by four factors: consonance between host and ancestral cultures, situational constraints, contextual requirements and convenience. Research limitations/implications In terms of the selfie phenomenon, the study makes two major contributions: first, it analyses young British South Asian adults’ cultural dualism. Second, it explicates how their acculturation and their dual cultural identity are expressed through the appropriation of the selfie phenomenon. Practical implications Since young British South Asians represent a significant, and distinct, market, organisations serving this market can marshal insights from this research. As such, managers who apprise themselves of the selfie phenomenon of this group are better placed to meet their consumer needs. Account, therefore, should be taken of their twofold cultural identity and dual British/Asian identification. In particular, consideration should be given to their distinct and demonstrable traits apropos religiosity and social, communal, and familial bonding. The characteristics were clearly evident via their interactions within social media. Consequently, senior marketing managers can utilise the aforementioned in positioning their organisations, their brands and their products and services. Originality/value The study details a new quadripartite framework for analysing young British South Asian adults’ acculturation that leads to the formation of their dual cultural identity and presents a dynamic model that explicates how cultural identity is expressed through the use and appropriation of technology.

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Lowenthal, David. "British National Identity and the English Landscape." Rural History 2, no. 2 (October 1991): 205–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956793300002764.

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Heritage is a messy concept ill-defined, heterogeneous, changeable, chauvinist – and sometimes absurd. In a TV programmer's words, just as ‘lifestyle has replaced life, heritage is replacing history'. Rather than ‘history’, Philadelphia's tourist boss now ‘talk[s] about heritage – it sounds more lively’. It is also more equivocal; as Walter Benjamin put it, every cultural treasure that is a ‘document of civilization is at the same time a document of barbarism’. Yet for all its ambiguity, ‘the idea of “Heritage” [is] one of the most powerful imaginative complexes of our time’.

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Heyck, Thomas William. "Myths and Meanings of Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century British National Identity." Journal of British Studies 37, no. 2 (April 1998): 192–221. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/386158.

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As Stefan Collini remarks in a recent paper comparing twentieth-century French and British intellectuals, the sense that Britain has had no intellectuals has been a significant element in British national identity. Collini rightly observes, “Any discussion in contemporary Britain of the topic of ‘intellectuals’ is sooner or later touched by the cliché that the reality of the phenomenon, like the origins of the term, is located in Continental Europe, and that British society, whether for reasons of history, culture or national psychology, is marked by the absence of ‘intellectuals.’” One might add that a closely related assumption has been equally significant: namely, that while the British may have had some intellectuals, they have paid little attention to them. As Denis Brogan once said, in a typical observation on British culture, “We British don't take our intellectuals too seriously.”The purpose of this article is to suggest an explanation for this feature of British national identity. As the recent literature on national identity tells us, a society's sense of national characteristics is culturally constructed; thus we should be skeptical about any assertions concerning either the absence of intellectuals or the lack of influence by intellectuals in British culture.

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Boskovic, Aleksandar, and Ilana van Wyk. "Troubles with Identity." Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 16, no. 1 (March 1, 2007): 147–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ayec.2007.160109.

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Anthropology began in South Africa with the work of nineteenth century missionaries like Alexandre Junod (Hammond-Tooke 1997; Thornton 1998) and as such it fits nicely into the cliche´ of a ‘colonial’ science. However, even at its humble beginnings in the former British colony, anthropology was much more than that (Thornton 1983; Cocks 2001); it served as an important field where different points of opinion collided or converged, but also as an important laboratory for different political experiments – some of which had lasting and devastating effects on South African societies.

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Burholt, Vanessa, Christine Dobbs, and Christina Victor. "Transnational Relationships and Cultural Identity of Older Migrants." GeroPsych 29, no. 2 (June 2016): 57–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000143.

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Abstract. We take a social identity approach to explore the associations between cultural heritage, social class, social-support networks, transnational relationships and cultural identity. Data for 815 older people (≥ 55 years) from six ethnic groups living in England and Wales are used to help understand older migrants’ ethnic identity, cultural identity with the family’s country of origin, and British identity. Regression models explain a low amount of variance. Different configurations of the independent variables – cultural heritage, social class, social-support networks and transnational relationships (with children, siblings, other relatives) – predicted different forms of cultural identity. Transnational relationships provide migrants with a range of alternative identities into which they self-categorize or contrast to their group identity.

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Luhar, Sahdev, and Dushyant Nimavat. "Cultural Memory and Gādaliyā Luhār Identity in Gujarat." South Asia Research 40, no. 2 (April 29, 2020): 199–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728020915565.

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Focused on the cultural memory of the Gādaliya Luhār community in Gujarat, this article discusses ways in which oral traditions and cultural memory among nomadic groups in India shape the identity of a community under the challenge of cultural amnesia. The Gādaliyā Luhārs claim Rājpūt status and close association with the kings of the Mewar region of Rajasthan, but experienced double cultural amnesia, first under the Mughals and later in the British Empire, which affected their identity. The article seeks to assess the authenticity of the community’s assertions of cultural memory in the light of some historical documents and asks to what extent cultural memory through oral narratives can be taken as valid evidence for understanding the cultural identity of a specific community.

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Anand, Dibyesh. "Strategic Hypocrisy: The British Imperial Scripting of Tibet's Geopolitical Identity." Journal of Asian Studies 68, no. 1 (January 27, 2009): 227–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021911809000011.

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The protests in and around Tibet in 2008 show that Tibet's status within China remains unsettled. The West is not an outsider to the Tibet question, which is defined primarily in terms of the debate over the status of Tibet vis-à-vis China. Tibet's modern geopolitical identity has been scripted by British imperialism. The changing dynamics of British imperial interests in India affected the emergence of Tibet as a (non)modern geopolitical entity. The most significant aspect of the British imperialist policy practiced in the first half of the twentieth century was the formula of “Chinese suzerainty/Tibetan autonomy.” This strategic hypocrisy, while nurturing an ambiguity in Tibet's status, culminated in the victory of a Western idea of sovereignty. It was China, not Tibet, that found the sovereignty talk most useful. The paper emphasizes the world-constructing role of contesting representations and challenges the divide between the political and the cultural, the imperial and the imaginative.

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Zriba, Hassen. "“Musicalized identities”: South Asian musical Third Space of Enunciation in Britain." Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 22, no. 1 (May 2019): 78–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5782/2223-2621.2019.22.1.78.

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Within a multicultural society like Britain, cultural identity has become a pivotal concern for the nation’s various ethnic minorities. South Asian minorities, notably, the third generation, have adopted different strategies of integration within the mainstream British society while attempting to preserve their cultural idiosyncrasies. South Asian identities or what can be generally called “Asianness” manifested themselves in different socio-cultural expressions. Music has been one of those media of cultural and identity expressions. This article argues that music can be deemed as a “Third Space of Enunciation” for the new generations of ethnic minorities in general and South Asian ones in particular. Ethnic or “ethnicized” music seemed to proffer new horizons and possibilities of articulations for British ethnic minorities. By analysing some contemporary British South Asian musical outputs, we attempt to show how fusion-based and hybrid music was a strategy to mobilize dominant British musical discourses to fight against racism and celebrate cultural identity within the context of multicultural Britain.

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Macdonald, Myra. "British Muslims, memory and identity: Representations in British film and television documentary." European Journal of Cultural Studies 14, no. 4 (August 2011): 411–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549411404617.

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Schäffner, Raimund. "Carnival, Cultural Identity, and Mustapha Matura's ‘Play Mas’." New Theatre Quarterly 18, no. 2 (May 2002): 186–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x0200026x.

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Carnival has been appropriated in many ways – by cultural critics after Bakhtin, who expanded the pre-Lenten festival to embrace all such inversions of the established order; by elegant maskers imposing their own social status on the celebration; and more recently by popular entertainers, creating the kind of mass event typified by the midsummer carnival at Notting Hill, divorced alike from religious and calendric associations. Here, Raimund Schäffner considers the critique dramatized in Mustapha Matura's Play Mas (1974) of the appropriation of carnival by the dominant political forces of the state in the context of the Trinidadian inheritance of social and racial tensions, colonial and post-colonial – the context also for the dismissal of the event as socially divisive rather than socially critical by such a figure as Derek Walcott. Raimund Schäffner teaches English and post-colonial literature in the English Department at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of a book on David Edgar and British political drama after 1968, and of articles on David Edgar, Howard Brenton, Caryl Churchill, and Doug Lucie.

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Gaines, Elliot. "British Imperialism in Fiji: A Model for the Semiotics of Cultural Identity." International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique 25, no. 2 (March 4, 2011): 167–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11196-011-9221-1.

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Papashvili, G. Z., O. Yu Kurnykin, and M. N. Tazhiyeva. "British Influence as a Factor of Forming the Modern Identity of Hong Kong." Izvestiya of Altai State University, no. 6(116) (December 18, 2020): 46–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.14258/izvasu(2020)6-07.

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The article considers the process of forming the modern identity of Hong Kong and proves underlying role of the British influence in this process. It is pointed out that the process goes back to the 19th century, when well-off Chinese started to move to the British Hong Kong in trying to find more comfortable conditions for life and business and reaches its pinnacle in 1970-1980, when Hong Kong not only becomes economically developed but transforms into a factor of cultural influence in the region mainly due to the promotion of its original (civilization-state) pop-culture. It’s stated that Hongkongers use cultural and semiotic resources to emphasize specificity of their cultural code. And particularly these kinds of resources played the biggest role in this process. Authors conclude that the British influence was one of the structural factors which determined the nature and contents of Hong Kong’s identity. At the same time, they note that the process of its forming is based on evolved for centuries Chinese national tradition which contains self-preserving mechanisms which make it possible for Hongkongers to interpret external cultural drawings in a unique way.

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Rose, Sonya O. "Race, empire and British wartime national identity, 1939–45*." Historical Research 74, no. 184 (May 1, 2001): 220–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1468-2281.00125.

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Abstract Britain's self-portrait as a democratic and paternalistic imperial nation was persistently undermined by the contradictory repercussions of racial divisiveness. The consequences of racism in both the metropole and in the colonies threatened the metropole-colonial relations so fundamental to British imperial sensibilities. Thus, government officials were involved throughout the war in repairing Britain's reputation with its imperial subjects. Using evidence from Colonial Office and Ministry of Information files, this article contributes to historical understanding of the empire's place in British national identity in the World War II years. It suggests the extent to which racism at “home” and in the colonies destabilized British efforts to bolster imperial loyalties that would persist into the post-war future.

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Perra, Emiliano. "From Belsen to Gaza:The Promise(2011), British and British-Jewish identity." Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 18, no. 1 (October 26, 2018): 38–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14725886.2018.1537214.

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Yeghiazaryan, Gayane. "The Concept “Modesty” in the Context of British, American and Armenian Cultural Identity." Armenian Folia Anglistika 9, no. 1-2 (11) (October 15, 2013): 134–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.46991/afa/2013.9.1-2.134.

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The present article provides an analysis of the concept “modesty” in the context of British, American and Armenian cultural identity. As an indicator of a common value in three linguo-cultures, the concept “modesty”, however, appears in various expressions. The article presents the similarities and differences of the value perception of the concept “modesty” in three linguo-cultures.

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Gust, Onni. "Remembering and Forgetting the Scottish Highlands: Sir James Mackintosh and the Forging of a British Imperial Identity." Journal of British Studies 52, no. 3 (July 2013): 615–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2013.114.

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AbstractThis article explores the formation of British imperial identity through a focus on the career of Sir James Mackintosh (1765–1832), a well-known Whig intellectual and imperial careerist who originally hailed from the Highlands of Scotland. Using Mackintosh's unpublished letters and autobiography, the article shows how he imagined and narrated his relationship to the Scottish Highlands from the vantage points of Bombay and London. In contrast to recent historiography that has focused on the translation of Scottish society, culture, and identity in British imperial spaces, this article argues that disidentification from the Highlands of Scotland and the erasure of different peoples, cultures, and textures of life was integral to Mackintosh's configuration of a British imperial identity.

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Mason, Andrew. "Integration, Cohesion and National Identity: Theoretical Reflections on Recent British Policy." British Journal of Political Science 40, no. 4 (June 18, 2010): 857–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007123410000104.

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Recent policy documents in Britain that have emphasized the importance of integration can be understood as addressing the question of what conditions are required in order to achieve and sustain a just society. The answer they give is that minority cultural groups need to be integrated into society, and that this involves community cohesion, secured through ‘meaningful contact’, and sharing a national identity based on common values. Here, it is argued that although meaningful contact between members of different cultural groups may promote trust between them, this does not warrant the key role which has been given to the idea of community cohesion. It is suggested instead that policies should aim to foster a widespread sense of belonging to the polity, and that this is not the same as sharing a national identity.

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Jaspal, Rusi, and Opinderjit Kaur Takhar. "Caste and Identity Processes among British Sikhs in the Midlands." Sikh Formations 12, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 87–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2016.1147174.

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Jaspal, Rusi, and Marco Cinnirella. "Media representations of British Muslims and hybridised threats to identity." Contemporary Islam 4, no. 3 (June 23, 2010): 289–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11562-010-0126-7.

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Dey, Bidit Lal, John M. T. Balmer, Ameet Pandit, Mike Saren, and Ben Binsardi. "A quadripartite approach to analysing young British South Asian adults’ dual cultural identity." Journal of Marketing Management 33, no. 9-10 (May 19, 2017): 789–816. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2017.1324896.

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Sichert, M. "Functionalizing Cultural Memory: Foundational British Literary History and the Construction of National Identity." Modern Language Quarterly 64, no. 2 (June 1, 2003): 199–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-64-2-199.

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McLoone, Martin. "Music Hall Dope and British Propaganda? Cultural identity and early broadcasting in Ireland." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 20, no. 3 (August 2000): 301–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01439680050127770.

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Zriba, Hassen. "Exclusiveness and Inclusiveness in the British National Identity." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 5, no. 2 (April 1, 2018): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v5i2.184.

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The issue of identity has been a fundamental one in virtually all human societies. The binary questions “who are we?” and “who are not we?” are constitutive of the meaning of any identity formation. Identity is an elusive concept that generates more questions than answers. Multifarious challenges face identity formation and consolidation which makes those two processes hard multidimensional tasks. In Britain, the concept of identity is central given the complex multinational and multicultural character of the nation. In their contact with different nations and peoples (the imperial experience), the British found themselves constantly negotiating their identity. They defined themselves with what they are and with what they are not as well. The British national identity or what is widely known as Britishness, has been a fuzzy and a difficult-to-define concept. It has been defined in different ways by different political sociologists each focusing on a distinctive aspect of the concept according to one’s perspective. It is a legal and political notion for politicians, an important cohesive concept for sociologists and a major source of identity for cultural critics. However, we propose in this article to broach the concept from an historical race-related perspective. We argue that the concept has been a useful index of the changing character of post-war race-related British politics. Historically, British race politics can roughly be divided into two major phases: the Assimilationist phase (starting from 1945 till the end 1970’s) and Multicultural phase (1980 till now). The assimilationist Britishness was based on a racial definition that excluded the different “other” (the alien, the immigrant) whereas the multicultural Britishness has been more tolerant and inclusive of difference. This article attempts to trace the ups and downs of the British national identity (Britishness) within the context of contemporary multicultural British society. This allows us to show how the same concept is capable of excluding and including the same set of ideological assumptions according to changes in the “structure of feeling” of those who believe in it.

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Ryan, Louise, and Elena Vacchelli. "‘Mothering Through Islam’: Narratives of Religious Identity in London." Religion and Gender 3, no. 1 (February 19, 2013): 90–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18785417-00301007.

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This paper draws upon research with mothers of diverse Muslim backgrounds in London to explore how these women use ‘conservative’ interpretations of Islamic beliefs and practices to underpin their parenting strategies. In particular the paper looks at how mothers use religion as a frame to make sense of and give meaning to their experiences and encounters in Britain. We suggest that the women use Islam in four key ways: (i) as a framework for teaching their children right and wrong, (ii) as a means of protecting children from the ‘moral’ dangers of British society, (iii) as an authoritative voice that reinforces parenting and (iv) as a means of critiquing specific aspects of both the traditional and British culture in which they live and daily negotiate their different cultural and religious belonging. In attempting to instil religious values in their Londonbased children, these mothers have to negotiate the hostility that Islam increasingly provokes in British society’s public arenas.

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Makala, Melissa Edmundson. "BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: RACIAL IDENTITY IN ALICE PERRIN'S THE STRONGER CLAIM." Victorian Literature and Culture 42, no. 3 (June 6, 2014): 491–508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150314000114.

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Like many Anglo-Indian novelists of her generation, Alice Perrin (1867–1934) gained fame through the publication and popular reception of several domestic novels based in India and England. However, within the traditional Anglo-Indian romance plot, Perrin often incorporated subversive social messages highlighting racial and cultural problems prevalent in India during the British Raj. Instead of relying solely on one-dimensional, sentimental British heroes and heroines, Perrin frequently chose non-British protagonists who reminded her contemporary readers of very real Anglo-Indian racial inequalities they might wish to forget. In The Stronger Claim (1903), Perrin creates a main character who has a mixed-race background, but who, contrary to prevailing public opinion of the time, is a multi-dimensional, complex, and perhaps most importantly, sympathetic character positioned between two worlds. Even as Victorian India was coming to an end, many of the problems that had plagued the British Raj intensified in the early decades of the twentieth century. Perrin's novel is one of the earliest attempts to present a sympathetic and heroic mixed-race protagonist, one whose presence asked readers to question the lasting negative effects of race relations and racial identity in both India and England.

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Finnis, Katerina. "Creating a ‘new space’." Pragmatics and Society 4, no. 2 (June 18, 2013): 137–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.4.2.02fin.

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This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots. The speakers, members of a Greek-Cypriot youth organization, are fluent in English and (with varying levels of fluency) speak the Greek-Cypriot Dialect. Qualitative analyses of recordings of natural speech during youth community meetings and a social event show how a new ‘third space’ becomes reified through code-switching practices. By skillfully manipulating languages and styles, speakers draw on Greek-Cypriot cultural resources to accomplish two inter-related things. First, by displaying knowledge of familiar Greek-Cypriot cultural frames, they establish themselves as different from mainstream British society and establish solidarity as an in-group. Secondly, by using these frames in non-serious contexts, and at times mocking cultural attitudes and stereotypes, they challenge and re-appropriate their inherited Greek-Cypriot identity, thereby constructing the identity of British-born Greek-Cypriot youth.

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Kahani-Hopkins, Vered, and Nick Hopkins. "'Representing' British Muslims: the strategic dimension to identity construction." Ethnic and Racial Studies 25, no. 2 (January 2002): 288–309. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870120109494.

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Brown, Noel. "Individualism and National Identity in Disney's Early British Films." Journal of Popular Film and Television 43, no. 4 (October 2, 2015): 188–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01956051.2015.1069726.

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De Vries, David. "National Construction of Occupational Identity: Jewish Clerks in British-Ruled Palestine." Comparative Studies in Society and History 39, no. 2 (April 1997): 373–400. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0010417500020661.

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This essay addresses the relationship between white-collar workers and nationalism by introducing a cultural-symbolic approach to examine how national discourse became an essential “point of production” of white-collar identities, particularly those of clerks and clerical work. Based on an analysis of the imagery that clerks use to describe their work experience, this discussion attempts to document and explain how and why nationalism, as a cultural system with an internal logic and specific stylistic devices, was employed by the clerks “from below” to construct their occupational identity.The association between white-collar workers and nationalism, particularly in the context of state building, has long attracted the attention of sociologists and historians. First, the emergence of non-manual workers as the social basis of bureaucratic organizations was linked to state formation. Second, the role of white-collar workers in the evolution of national-capitalist economies and urban consumer communities was regarded as essential in linking state building and economic change. Third, political and social histories of the nationalist Right centered on bureaucrats and clerical employees as standard-bearers of conservative politics.

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Yoon, I. Sil. "Korean Christian Students' Adaptation and Integration in British Society: Their Identity Formation and Negotiation Processes." Studies in World Christianity 26, no. 2 (July 2020): 133–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2020.0293.

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1 This paper explores Korean Christian students' adaptation and integration process in Britain, and their identity formation and negotiation, primarily based on ethnographic research. Korean student migrants undergo peculiar types of challenges during their integration process and experience conflicts between previously obtained and newly formed identities. Their attendance of and involvement in either a Korean or a British church helps them to overcome these challenges and influences them to continually (re)form identity/identities. While negotiating between different identities, their Christian identity – as their original identity that transcends cultural boundaries and influences – reminds them of their ontological value and encourages them to continue their life as migrants despite the challenges. Nevertheless, I will examine at the same time the notion that the migrants' Christian identity is a Korean Christian identity with cultural identity markers that define a Korean ethnic identity, which provides them hope in British society not only to survive but even to flourish as migrants.

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De Nie, Michael. "The famine, Irish identity, and the British press." Irish Studies Review 6, no. 1 (April 1998): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09670889808455590.

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Timol, Riyaz. "Ethno-religious socialisation, national culture and the social construction of British Muslim identity." Contemporary Islam 14, no. 3 (November 2020): 331–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11562-020-00454-y.

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AbstractThis paper interfaces a specific theory of socialisation, derived from Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s influential book The Social Construction of Reality, with the empirical story of Muslim settlement in Britain. It makes a key distinction between the primary socialisation experiences of immigrants, which unfolded in their countries of origin, and that of their diaspora-born offspring whose identity is forged between an inherited ethno-religious culture and the wider British collective conscience. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Islamic revivalist movement Tablighi Jama’at, the paper explores the cultural embodiments of religion as it evolves over generations through an examination of identity markers such as language, dress and food. The analysis triangulates Berger and Luckmann’s concepts of primary and secondary socialisation with a tripartite model of British Muslim identity developed by Ron Geaves. It further argues, in light of Kwame Gyekye’s theory of nation-building, that recent government efforts to promulgate a set of fundamental British values in schools represent an essentially Durkheimian attempt to supply the ‘social glue’ that binds citizens together. While the article acknowledges the increasing salience of religion for many British-born Muslims, it argues for the ongoing influence of ethnicity and nationality in determining their lived experience.

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Sivertseva, Tamara. "Culture and Ethnic Identity in Daghestan." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 10, no. 1 (1998): 142–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis1998101/29.

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This field research report summarizes the results of interviews during special research trips to Daghestan from 1992-96. These interviews were conducted with both secular and religious leaders in villages, district centers, and the capital of Makhachkala. We found indigenous cultures, ethnic identities, and the entire North Caucasus region in transition from a Russian sphere of cultural and political influence to that of Islam, epitomized by a split cultural and generational identity of fathers versus sons. Yet indigenous cultures show great resilience toward both the former Soviet influences of atheism and modemization and the contemporary revival of Islam, which seeks to integrate all aspects of individual and community life. Curiously, just like the British Empire, the former imperial Soviet State evokes ambivalent feelings of nostalgia and admiration, mixed with apprehension, while Islam now appears as the major agent transformation of indigenous cultures toward a new geo-political identity.

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Gilliat‐Ray, Sophie. "Multiculturalism and identity: their relationship for British Muslims." Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 18, no. 2 (October 1998): 347–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13602009808716416.

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Rossos, Andrew. "The British Foreign Office and Macedonian National Identity, 1918-1941." Slavic Review 53, no. 2 (1994): 369–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2501298.

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The study of the Macedonian identity has given rise to far greater controversies and debates than that of most, if not all, other nationalisms in eastern Europe. This has been only in part due to the hazy past of the Slavic speaking population of Macedonia and to the lack of a continuous and separate state tradition, a trait they had in common with other "small" and "young," or so-called "non-historic," peoples in the area.

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Olofinjana, Rev Israel Oluwole. "Reverse Mission: Towards an African British Theology." Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 37, no. 1 (October 23, 2019): 52–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265378819877902.

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This article explores reverse mission as practised by African Christians in Britain. The main research question is what crucial role does African identity play in African mission in Britain and how does that lead towards developing African British theology? It is argued that such a theology will help African Christians in Britain be affirmed in their cultural identity whilst at the same time reach beyond African communities in their mission engagement. African British theology is related to Black British theology in that they both take the black experience seriously for theological reflection. However, African British theology is also distinct in that it seeks to understand African identity and mission in a postmodern multicultural British society. My research methods have been as an African Practical Theologian involving active participation as well participant observation. My approach has been interdisciplinary engaging the fields of practical theology, diaspora missiology, African theology and Black theology.

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Bragg, Sara, David Buckingham, and Sue Turnbull. "Media Education: Authority, Identity and Value — An Editorial Dialogue." Media International Australia 120, no. 1 (August 2006): 76–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x0612000111.

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In this ‘dialogue’ article, the three editors of the special issue debate three key themes arising from the articles that follow. We discuss the dilemmas posed by the institutionalisation or ‘authorisation’ of media education within the formal education system; persistent questions about the role of media education as an intervention in the processes of students' identity formation; and the vexed debate about judgments of cultural value and their relevance to the field. The discussion suggests some shared themes and some clear differences between Australasian and British perspectives, which emerge from their overlapping but distinctive histories.

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Mat Nayan, Nadiyanti, David S. Jones, and Suriati Ahmad. "Historic Open Space: The Identity of [Padang] Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia." Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies 4, no. 17 (December 31, 2019): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v4i17.182.

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In 1880, when the British moved their Federated Malay States administrative centre to Kuala Lumpur, the Padang quickly became a symbol of British economic and administrative colonisation, and a nucleus of the socio-cultural development of Kuala Lumpur. This paper discusses the layers of history, symbolism and cultural values that the Padang contributes to the socio-cultural tapestry of both Kuala Lumpur and Malaysia, and the lack of relevant planning and heritage measures to conserve these attributes and characteristics. The conclusions offer avenues to engage with pre- and post-colonisation that enable re-making and the conservation of the iconic space of Kuala Lumpur.Keywords: Urban open space; Merdeka Square; Kuala Lumpur City Hall; National Heritage Act 2005eISSN: 2398-4295 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER, ABRA & cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v4i17.182

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Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander. "Compromise and cultural identity: British and American perspectives in Anita Brookner'sProvidenceand Cynthia Ozick's ‘Virility’." English Studies 78, no. 5 (September 1997): 459–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138389708599095.

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Natalia A., Ostroglazova. "Socio-Cultural Self-Identification: Lost, Created and Asserted Identity." Humanitarian Vector 16, no. 2 (April 2021): 16–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.21209/1996-7853-2021-16-2-16-21.

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Mutual influence of external and internal factors that determine the process of sociocultural identification is now becoming increasingly interrelated and unpredictable. The documentation of the observed trends in the media text, which is the subject of this study, allows for the research study and philosophical understanding of the ongoing changes. In particular, a comprehensive analysis of the publications in the authoritative British magazine The Economist in recent years made it possible to identify the main contexts in which the linguistic projection of the concept of identity constitutes itself, as well as to establish the most noticeable directions of its changes. The analysis of the dynamics of these changes, in turn, opened up the opportunity to highlight the main directions of the search and conditions for the adoption of new identities, that complement or replace existing ones. As a result of the research, it has been proved: from the standpoint of the authors of The Economist, first, politics always directly or indirectly affects all dimensions of personal and collective identity; secondly, any political action today is perceived by them in the context of identity politics. If for the subject identity determines meaning and provides security, then for the external actors it is an opportunity to gain political weight through “support” and “pressure”. According to the stance of The Economist, identity change often occurs arbitrarily rather than involuntarily and represents the promotion (akin to advertising) of group identity. Several conclusions of the study concern how natural language is able to convey the subtleties of identity dynamics, and how this is related to the development of the concept of identity culture. The results of the study are applicable for a detailed analysis of the discourse of identity by specialists from different scientific fields, as well as for the development of communicative competence in general. Keywords: philosophy of culture, sociocultural identity, identity transformations, media representation, conceptualization, identity politics

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Holton, Robert, and Tim Phillips. "Personal orientations towards Australian national identity among British-born residents." Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, no. 5 (September 1, 2004): 732–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0414987042000246327.

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Phillips, Tim, and Robert Holton. "Personal orientations towards Australian national identity among British-born residents." Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, no. 5 (September 2004): 732–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0141987042000246327.

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