Unravelling identities

Citizenship and legitimacy in a multicultural Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8068043
AutoresZahbia Yousuf (King's College London, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen10
Número3
Páginas360-373
Fecha de publicación2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1367-5494 • E-ISSN: 1460-3551
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1367549407079709
OpenAlexW2165532216
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas10

The decision to go to war by the government of the day is assumed to be a decision taken on behalf of all citizens of the nation, conceived as a collective united by a harmony of interests. Yet in the case of the Iraq War, there is clearly no unified voice of support from the British people. There is division between the state and its citizens, and the latter also reflect the multilayered identities of an increasingly multicultural society. How do individuals displaying multilayered identities relate politically, socially and culturally to the abstract, unified idea of Britishness, and how does this impact upon perceptions concerning the legitimacy of state action

Britishness · Collective action · Epistemology · Government (linguistics · Harmony (color · Legitimacy · Linguistics · Multiculturalism · Perception · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Irish and British Studies · Law · Scottish History and National Identity · Theatre and Performance Studies