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A Single World, Many Identities?

Published: April 11, 2016, 7:01 a.m.

Bestselling Turkish novelist Elif Shafak, Nick Bostrom from Oxford\u2019s Future of Humanity Institute and Ann Phoenix from UCL's Institute of Education trace the evolution of 21st century identity with the BBC\u2019s Jo Fidgen. Are technology and geopolitics conspiring to create a new type of human, unrecognisable to our forebears? Is \u2018serial migration\u2019 the new norm for transnational families and what effect is this having on the identity of the young? Or perhaps we should drop the concept of Identity altogether?

(Photo: Left to right, Ann Phoenix, Elif Shafak and Nick Bostrom)