Identity: Community, Culture, Difference Jonathan Rutherford
Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd

Drawing on indigenous gift cultures, I have sought to understand how social media users create positive reputations, communities, and prismatic identities through sharing (or 'gifting') with online crowds. One's heritage would seem to be especially stable and impervious to change, Then she gave all the volunteers a variety of tests, each designed to measure the strength of their values—either self-reliance on the one hand, or community harmony on the other. Kutch is a fascinating destination, and for many centuries was geographically cut off from the rest of India, giving it a unique cultural identity. Can one, despite the tendency of globalization to erase national and cultural differences, still understand identity as something that is associated with parti¬cular places? If we are playing the reputation game correctly, the identity that we create on, say, LinkedIn will be subtly different to the identity that we create on Tumblr or Facebook. "I Feel Like a Different Person" Scientists have long been interested in the interplay of emotions and identity, and some have recently zeroed in on cultural identity. They held a number of workshops that took place which involved a number of young people, they disused; culture, identity, family and conflict management. In our spare time, Jehan and I would . The aim is to allow researchers working on Intercultural and multicultural education (but also on other 'labels' such as global, transcultural education) to get together and discuss their differences and similarities and to put an end to "rivalries". The fact that the conference What has happened to contested – and yet central – concepts used by both 'multiculturalists' and 'interculturalists' in education: culture, identity, community, communication, ethnicity, race, etc.? [8] Stuart Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” in Rutherford (ed.), Identity, Community and Cultural Difference (London, 1990), 222–237. Therefore, I do not wish to go into too much detail about them in my research proposal. Does becoming missional change how If Janet suggests that Maryam should release her worldview for the purpose of “fitting in,” she has essentially denied Maryam her connections with her cultural identity. Some Christian leaders are also asking how a “missional orientation” to their community will result in engagement with the different cultures already present there – even if people from those cultures are not yet feeling welcome in their church. Katie Bhujwala: Although I had grown up in the English countryside, I had never taken a particular interest in wildlife and conservation; it was the opportunity of working alongside rural communities in a completely different culture that initially pulled me. There is a lot of emotion and frustration, it seems, between the design and business communities. The Nordic welfare model is viewed here as a processual, mutable entity that helps to form what is perceived as Nordic identity and culture: where is the community going, and what new institutions represent the welfare society of the future? A gift culture perspective highlights the motivations we create prismatic, multi-faceted, identities.