ABSTRACT
The notion of identity, stressing cultural differences, has become more popular and significant over the last few decades. Today, we are apparently living in a new globalised epoch of diversity and identity politics in which difference provides an organizing theme for the field of culture. Contemporary debates on identity reflect the ambiguity brought about by dramatic social changes that are produced by reorientations of work, gender, family and class and reorganizations of society via technological innovation, new political borders, mobility, migration and the intrusive reality of global media and markets. 1
