Book Showcase – Austerlitz by WG Sebald
by Luke Reilly As part of Identity Digest’s new Book Showcase section, OICD Project Development Officer Luke Reilly, focuses on the theme of identity as evoked by place, the...
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Articles on Identity and Culture
Techniques Corner: Metaphors as Gateways to Identity and Culture
Identity and Cultural information is difficult to access. Indeed, it is almost always hidden in conversations, speeches, words, symbols and actions. In this first edition of...
Unveiling Identity’s True Complexity
Why should we remain curious about and aware of the multiplicity of people’s lived realities? Because dominant discourses will never reveal the true complexity of why people...
Reflections on Identities in History
by Fergus Selsdon Games “Civilisation’s going to pieces,” broke out Tom violently. “I’ve gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read ‘The Rise of the...
Crafting Cohesion in Colombia – Real World Work at the OICD & ReD
by Luke Reilly Identity and Culture are not only important concepts to discuss theoretically but are also vital tools for building real world solutions to conflict and...
Coffee with Identity Digest – Sandra Obradović
by Oliver Puckey Amid the hustle and bustle of London’s Kingsway, I met with Sandra Obradović over coffee to discuss her current work and involvement in the OICD. Sandra is a...
Truth and Judgement in Sherwood Forest: Lessons in Classroom History and Ideology
by Fergus Selsdon Games The story of Robin Hood is among the most familiar in British folklore. Set against the backdrop of twelfth-century English forestry, the cunning Robin...
The Power of Hijacking the Human Imagination
Weaponized Identities: Mankind’s Ultimate Tool of Destruction? by BRUCE WHITE We humans have made weapons from many things over countless millennia. Weapons have been...
What to do with the Knowledge that Identities are Manmade?
By OICD Executive Director, Prof. Bruce White The popularity of books such as Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari periodically thrust a key finding of...