SPACES OF IDENTITY: COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF EUROPE.

The article examines the processes through which cultural identities are produced and consumed, at both macro and micro levels. This discussion argues that a cultural identity must be defined, not by its positive content, but always by its relation to, and differentiation from, other cultural identities. The construction of cultural identities is discussed. The cultural identity of Great Britain is, in fact, formulated around the cultural identity of its dominant English part. The England being reconstructed based on race is being reconstructed around a tradition which is unproblematically white, a tradition which tends toward a morbid celebration of England and Englishness from which blacks are systematically excluded.