This book contains selected papers from the meeting «Conditioned Identities. Wished-for and Unwished-for Identities», held in the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (University of Lleida) in 2013 and attended by participants representing different disciplines, discussing the imposition and acceptance of identities. The different chapters of the book, written by scholars and researchers from all over the world, analyse the conflict between attributed and chosen identities in History, Language, Literature, Sociology and Anthropology across various historical periods and geographical regions. Theoretical and practical studies are combined in order to contribute to a renewal of perspectives regarding a key issue for understanding the roots of our current society and the problems surrounding conviviality in today’s world.

Flocel Sabaté is Professor of Medieval History and director of the Institute of Research in Identities and Society (IRIS), at the University of Lleida (Catalonia, Spain). He has led various research projects attending interdisciplinary approaches to social identities and has conducted many studies, especially about the European Medieval Society.