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Estimating our ancestry is hard – because our backgrounds are much more mixed up than we thought. So don’t take your DNA ancestry test results literally: they’re just a prediction.
Your identity changes when you move house and, if that’s to a different community, your clothes change along with you.
Scientists have developed a robotic arm with knowledge of its physical form – a very basic sense of self.
Numbers alone don’t relay the importance of people seeing their own experiences and lives mirrored in popular culture.
Children from minority groups rarely see themselves reflected in the books they read. This can negatively impact their sense of identity and their literacy levels.
Since 1997, the ways people in the UK define their nationality has rapidly changed.
Australia’s parliament will soon decide on a bill to try to regulate facial recognition technology, but it leaves a lot of questions unanswered.
Torture is such a profound tear in the fabric that makes us human that it can distort even the most fundamental elements of social existence.
Whether the sins of our past stay with us forever has become a pertinent question of our time. A philosopher argues we don’t need to carry our past burdens – although there are some moral conditions.
Research sheds light on how we pick and choose among distorted memories to create our identity. But is that a bad thing?
The US president’s comments about South Africa’s land reform stem from his view that whites are under attack from blacks.
For the millions celebrating on the Champs-Elysées last month, Frenchness was not just an idea, it was an intense shared experience. But what happens to that identity when the celebrations end?
As the Wettlaufer inquiry wraps up for the summer, an international research team offers suggestions on how to make nursing homes as good as they can possibly be.
Those four words have multiple layers of meaning. How young Aussies answered depended on multiple factors, such as the colour of their skin, family ties and where they live geographically.
How medieval scientists grappled with the conflicting ‘truths’ of creationism and the eternity of the world.
The Great Exhibition of the North is putting paid to tired stereotypes of the region – but now, the North itself is becoming divided.
What’s in a name? A valued sense of history and identity.
Journalist Stan Grant has argued that we need to stop talking about Meghan Markle’s ‘mixed race’ identity. But our society still categorises people according to race - and we need to discuss this.
Pakistan has often been misunderstood to be exclusively built upon a national Islamic identity, ignoring the multiculturality and divisive role of Islam in the definition of its national identity.
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Director, PUSKAPA
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Professor of Management, Western Washington University
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Honorary Associate in Philosophy, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor. L. Robert Payne School of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Tourism RESET, San Diego State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
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Clinical Assistant Professor of Education, Health and Behavior Studies, University of North Dakota
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Western Washington University
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Head of Research, PUSKAPA
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Senior Lecturer (Organisational Behaviour), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Executive Director of the Department of Leadership and Transformation, University of South Africa
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Research Fellow in Migration, Identity and Belonging, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Planning, School of Built Environment, UNSW
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PhD Candidate, UNSW
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Lecturer, University of Leicester