Identity and Capitalism - Paperback

by Marie Moran (Author)

Against the common assumption that identity 'always mattered', Marie Moran shows that what we now think of routinely as 'personal identity' actually only emerged with the explosion of consumption in the late 20th Century.

Author Biography

Dr. Marie Moran is a lecturer in Equality Studies at the UCD School of Social Justice, Dublin. She has an interdisciplinary background, with a degree in English Literature and Psychology from Trinity College Dublin, and a M.Sc and PhD in Equality Studies, combining sociology, cultural studies, feminist theory and political economy. Her main areas of interest are the development of cultural materialism as a sociological paradigm, the power of ideas, and formations of class and identity in capitalist societies, on which she has also published. She is also engaged in a number of broadly anti-capitalist activist campaigns in her home town of Dublin, and is a founding member of Debt Justice Action Ireland, and the Irish chapter of ATTAC, both of which attempt to 'disarm the power of the financial markets' through public action and popular education programmes.