Identities

Abstract

Within the human sciences, as Eric Hobsbawm (1996) notes, there was no real talk of identity outside of psychology until the ’60s. Very rapidly since that time, though, and especially since the late 1980s, “identity” has emerged as a master term, connected to an ever widening array of issues and viewed as an urgent investigative concern (Malesevic, 2006). On this score, Malesevic (2006, p. 13) remarks that Google lists over 93 million sites linked to the keyword “identity”.