The CV is a crucial genre of autobiography. The way it has to be practiced amounts to identity asset management. And the latter is becoming a format of truth, also affecting online dating.
How the Dutch national Skirt Day (Rokjesdag) and a leopard print skirt give a good impression of some of our societal problems like, for example, discrimination. Read all about it in this column about unwanted identities.
What do bell bottoms and nationalism have in common? The are both outdated…and apparently back in style. Nigel Farage uses British Identity in ways reminiscent of past decades, from introspective foreign policy to who counts as a national. Groovy?
I ’m the Tony Manero character played by John Travolta in the film, Saturday Night Fever. I may think of myself as a White working-class guy but is it received as such in US society?Now one may ask, what’s the problem? So what if you are?
This paper analyzes the online behaviour of make-up lovers. It is a new, heterogenic, polycentric and multilayered micro-population in which people share a passion for this consumer product. What are the norms and how can one become a master?
