Roy, Olivier
The Crisis of Culture: Identity Politics and the Empire of Norms
- ISBN 13:
- 9781911723059
- author:
- Roy, Olivier
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 232
- Dimensions:
- 14.9 x 22.3 x 2.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Sociology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Olivier Roy explores the fractures of our time, tracing the roots of the crisis in culture to the extension of individual freedoms from the 1960s. He argues that twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region, or ethnicity, forging an identity based on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. As neoliberalism and the internet spread, youth culture became increasingly individualised, transforming into an ersatz, online phenomenon. Without a shared culture, identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces. Roy contends that this crisis of culture and community necessitates a restoration of social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level. In this book, Roy examines the consequences of this crisis and proposes a way forward, one that prioritises the re-establishment of social connections and community.
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