New forms of cultural identity in an African Society

Bibliographic Data

ID11810398
AuthorsUllamaija Kivikuru (0000-0001-9125-4513, University of Helsinki, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume8
Issue4
Pages371-389
Publication date1995-12-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInnovation The European Journal of Social Science Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1351-1610 • E-ISSN: 1469-8412
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13511610.1995.9968463
OpenAlexW1999056945
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited13

This article argues that the media offer a way of reading cultural identity. The theme of collective identity is conceptualized quite differently in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres, due to different historical processes of political and societal change. In the African context, the three liberation struggles of colonial liberation, political‐economical liberation, and fight against authoritarianism has taken place within a short period of time. Hence, the customary western modes of thinking about identity politics in late modernity easily lead to false assumptions when transposed to the African context. In Africa, the locality and life‐world experiences in the village are more important than global ‘media‐scapes’ and ‘ideoscapes’, and the article discusses present changes concerning cultural identities in Africa, particularly in Tanzania and Kenya

Aesthetics · Authoritarianism · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Cultural identity · Democracy · Identity (music · Identity formation · Modernity · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Theme (computing · African history and culture studies · Gender Studies · History · Law