Cover -- Table of Contents 5 -- Preface 7 -- Acknowledgements 11 -- Introduction Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo and Ángel Mateos-Aparicio Martín-Albo 13 -- Part I. Identity and Identification in Cultural Studies: Theorerical Debates 33 -- Cultural Studies in the Contemporary Lawrence Grossberg 35 -- Cultural Studies and/on Borders: Complexity and Transgression Aljosa Puzar 61 -- Crossed Concepts: Identity, Habitus and Reflexivity Idalina Conde 77 -- Universities for Sale? Academic Excellence, the Free-market Economy, and the Future of Cultural Studies: Perfomative Politics, Discontent, Resistance and (De)identification David Walton 97 -- Part II. Bridging the Gap between Identification Processes and Identity Construction in the Media 113 -- Media and the Inner World: Mapping the Psycho-cultural Candia Yates 115 -- A Critical Approach to Marginalized Audiences and Representation Adrienne Shaw 133 -- Hegemonies of Expatriate Identities in Portuguese English-language Press Merja de Mattos-Parreira 149 -- Part III. Gendering Selves in Cultural Products 163 -- A Critical Reflection on the Socially-constructed Nature of Gender Identity in The Full Monty and Calendar Girls Chantal Cornut-Gentille D'Arcy 165 -- Heterosexual Masculinity in Despair: Dan White in Rob Epstein's The Times of Harvey Milk and Gus Van Sant's Milk Sara Martín Alegre 179 -- Tori Amos's "Pandora's Aquarium": Voice, Music, and Female Identity within the Space of l'écriture féminine Esther Zaplana 195 -- Part IV. Film, Music and the Glocalization of Identities 205 -- Transnational German-Turkish Cinema from a Cosmopolitan Perspective: Towards the Representation of Cosmopolitan Hybrid Identites Mahdis Azarmandi 207 -- Identifying Otherness in Transnational Film: Slumdog Millionaire Elena Oliete-Aldea 223 -- Forging Identity through Popular Culture: Seggae in Mauritius Felicity Hand 235.

Part V. Nationhood and Cultural History at the Crossroads 249 -- Chris Weedon Autobiography as Cultural Politics in Multi-ethnic Britain Chris Weedon 251 -- The "Roots" and "Routes" of British Identity John Storey 267 -- What Remains? Memory, Identity and Loss in the Work of Frances Torres and Alicia Framis Anindya Raychaudhuri 281 -- The European Constructs of Turkish Identity in the Early and Modern Times Himmet Umunc 293 -- Towards a New Sociology of Ethnicity in Africa: Zimbabwe's Nationalism and the Paradox of Ethnicity Brilliant Mhlanga 307 -- List of Contributors 325.