IDENTITY, PLACE AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE

摘要

What is identity, that ephemeral and quixotic thing? Draw it too tightly and it is a noose: a boundary marker that defines the separation between individuals or between one group and another; a blunt weapon of differentiation that fuels rippling scales of dispute from neighbourhood argument through to xenophobia and war. And yet draw identity too loosely and we no longer feel the connection between people and place.