IDENTITY and SELF-IMITATION
Notions of identity have overwhelmed people for centuries. Tales from life and literature show how people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear.
Laurie Taylor is joined by Wendy Doniger Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago who has just published a new book called The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-imitation . They explore the idea of self-imitation and look at the basic human ways of negotiating reality, illusion, identity and authenticity. Wendy Doniger argues that it is not unusual for humans to become travesties of themselves, particularly as they age and change.
VISUAL SOCIOLOGY
In the spring of 1971, at the Jubilee Hall in Chapeltown, Leeds, demonstrations took place that came to be at the heart of the black political and cultural struggle. Sociologist Max Farrar documented these activities through photographs, taking pictures of key events and significant figures like Linton Kwesi Johnson.
In a new article, Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries Max Farrar looks back at these events and investigates the importance of photographs as visual tools of research. Laurie Taylor is joined by Max and Sociologist Caroline Knowles from the International Visual Sociology Association to discuss this research and the value of Visual Sociology.
Additional information:
Professor Wendy Doniger
Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-imitation
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, USA - ISBN: 0195160169
Dr Max Farrar
Principal Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, Leeds Metropolitan University,
Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries
Publisher: Sociological Research online
Caroline Knowles
Reader in sociology at the Goldsmith's College, University of London
Visually narrating post-colonial lives: ghosts of war and empire
From journal: Visual Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, April 2005 (published by Routledge)
Picturing the Social Landscape
Caroline Knowles, Paul Sweetman
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 041530640X
Bedlam on the Streets
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd
ISBN: 0415232996
International Visual Sociology Association
Archive:
Title: Trains
Performer: Reginald Gardiner
Record Label: Decca 45-F.5278 (TBF.154)
Music:
Title: Di Great Insohreckshan
Performer: Linton Kwesi Johnson
Side 1 - track 3
LP: Making History by Linton Kwwesi Johnson
Label: Island ILPS 9770
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