Culture and Lifestyle Seminar Eleven Performing the Self identity individualism and lifestyle Key Lessons From The Lecture Lifestyle is seen as the key currency of modern life identity capital ID: 414162
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Slide1
Globalisation, Culture and Lifestyle
Seminar
Eleven
: Performing the Self: identity, individualism and lifestyleSlide2
Key Lessons From The Lecture
Lifestyle is seen as the key currency of modern life (identity capital)
It is concerned with the stylisation of everyday life
The body can be used as a canvas for communicative action
The body as a project
Issues of instant gratificationSlide3
Referencing – direct quotes
In the text
“The de-industrialisation of cities has created a situation where policy makers have, in the words of Miles (2005:913) “desperately sought to explore the possibilities for a post-industrial future”
Surname (year: page number)
Where there are more than three authors do not list all of the surnames, put the first surname, followed by ‘et al’
For example,
Bowdin
, et al (2006:67)Slide4
References - paraphrasing
In the text
In recent years cultural regeneration has developed from an alternative to urban development policy into a core strategy for many regions and cities throughout the world (Garcia, 2005)
Surname, YearSlide5
Referencing - websites
In the text
Where there is an actual author use their name (e.g. newspaper articles)
It has been suggested that highland games are losing their battle for survival (Ross, 2011)
Where there is no name use the website name
It was reported that ‘girls are growing up in a moral abyss’ (BBC News, 2011)
In the reference list
Ross, J. Highland Games in Losing Battle for Survival.
Scotland on Sunday
.
Available at
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/
highland_games_in_losing_battle_for_survival_1_1975526
accessed on Monday 21
st
November 2011.
BBC News (2011) Girls Growing up in Moral Abyss. BBC News.
Available at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education
/
accessed on Monday 21
st
November 2011.Slide6
Referencing – reference list
Books:
Bowdin
, G.A.J., Allen, J.
, O'Toole
, W., Harris, R. and McDonnell, I. (2006).
Events Management. 2nd
edn
.
Oxford, Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann.
Journals:
Garcia, B. (2005) Deconstructing the City of Culture: the long term cultural legacies of Glasgow 1990.
Urban Studies
, Vol. 42 (5), pp. 841-868.Slide7
Discussion Topic
Critically debate the notion of lifestyle and how this can be differentiated from other ‘forms’ of identity.
Discuss how the concept of lifestyle relates to other understandings of identity such as subculture and neo-tribalism in a postmodern world.
Critically discuss the means by which the body can be used as a communicative tool drawing upon examples from the entertainment and events industries.