British Cultural Identities

British Cultural Identities has been brought right up-to-date to include current issues such as ID cards and environmental concerns. Illustrated with around fifty photographs, this book analyzes contemporary British identity from the various and changing ways in which people who live in the UK position themselves and are positioned by their culture today.Each chapter covers one of the seven intersecting themes:- place and environment- education, work and leisure- gender, sex and the family- youth culture and style- class and politics- ethnicity and language- religion and heritage.This new edition is fully updated to include environmental concerns, devolution, the infantilization of culture, binge-drinking and reality TV, 7/7 and terrorism, and a general shift from a literate to a visual culture.Storry, Michael is the author of 'British Cultural Identities', published 2002 under ISBN 9780415278614 and ISBN 0415278619.