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- Title: Intersections in Cultural Policy: Geographic, Socioeconomic and Other Markers of Identity.
- Author : Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
- Release Date : January 22, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 219 KB
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ABSTRACT/RESUME Region is shown to be constitutive of individual and social identifications, not only as geographically determined by one's province, territory, or area of residence, but also as a cultural symbol. It highlights the politics and instability that lurk beneath the anodyne concept of identity. Intersectionality is performative. Using approaches developed in cultural geography and environmental psychology, region is shown to be significant in the expression and everyday realisation of identity formations. Region challenges the assumption that identity markers intersect on a single plane or that identity markers do not appear in different forms depending on their engagement with other, equally varying identity markers. In regional, urban, and neighbourhood examples, region is shown to intersect with and to impact on other identity markers such as race, gender, and ethnicity in four ways: (1) as a surrogate for other markers such as socio-economic status or ethnicity; (2) as a framework for analysis of specific cultural policy and identity issues; (3) as a resource or set of "affordances" in the everyday performance and blending of intersectional identifications, and (4) as part of a "social spatialisation" or a "brand" uniting local groupings of diverse identities. Although under-researched as an intersectional and surrogate identity marker, region is relevant to cultural policy as a brand reflected in diverse cultural events. It has the power to unite people despite other, mutually-incompatible identity markers.