Reconstructing identity : a transdisciplinary approach /
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Cham, Switzerland :
Springer International Publishing,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures ; 1: Introduction; Forms of Identity Module; References; Section 1: Biological Identity; 2: If My Brain Is Damaged, Do I Become a Different Person? Catherine Malabou and Neuro-identity; Introduction; Destructive Plasticity; "Gage Was No Longer Gage"; The Hidden Plasticity of Apophaticism; Conclusion; References; 3: Identity and Psychiatric Disorders; Introduction; Psychiatry and Its Identity as Part of Medicine; The Identity of the Psychiatrist and the Person Who Becomes Mentally Unwell; What Is Personal Identity?
- Psychological Continuity Theory Physiological Continuity Theory; Personal Identity and Mental Illness; Disorders of Psychosis and Schizophrenia; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Mood (Affective) Disorder; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Personality Disorder; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Disorders of Memory; Case Vignette ; Discussion; Conclusion; References; 4: Biological Identity; Introduction; My Identity; Reproduction and You; A Starting Place for Considering Biological Identity; Stripping Back Humans; Genes, DNA, and You; Our Cellular Identity: The DNA Code
- Our Faces Are Unique to Each of Us Our Sexual Identity: The Role of the Chromosomes; Determining Our DNA Code; DNA Individuality; Twins, Epigenetics, and Our Changing DNA Landscape; Biometrics: Measuring Identity; Last Comments; References; Glossary; Meta-analysis I; Section 2: Structures of National and Personal Identity; 5: Outside in the House of Colour: A Second Look at Postcolonial and Transnational Feminisms; Introduction; Terminal Trouble: A Short, Selective History of Race Consciousness and Racial Categories in the US in the Twentieth Century
- Race, Postcolonialism, and South Asianness Conclusion; References; 6: Gendering the Favela: Brazilian National Identities on Screen; Introduction; References; 7: Queering Identity: Becoming Queer in the Work of Cassils; Introduction; Disrupting the "Normal": A Queer Project; From Identity Politics to a Politics of Identity; The Gendered/Sexed Body: New Ways for Bodies to Matter?; Queer Temporalities; Cassils and the (Queer) Body: Representation and Becoming; Becoming an Image: The Politics of Queer Witness; Conclusion: "For the Hope of Liveable Worlds"; References
- 8: Forms of Self-TranslationIntroduction; Migration, Translation, Identity; "Language Acts Are Acts of Identity" (Gustavo Pérez Firmat); An Exemplary Case; Names, Place, and Identity; Identity Unbound; Conclusion; References; Section 3: Creating and Mediating Identity; 9: Autoethnographic Journalism: Subjectivity and Emotionality in Audio Storytelling; Introduction; Autoethnography as a Method for Sense-Making; The Power of Storytelling; Journalism and the Personal; Storytelling in the Audio Media; Objectivity and Managing Journalistic Emotions
- Losing My Identity, Context for the Case Study