The SAGE Handbook of Identities
Identity research is at the heart of many trans-disciplinary research centers around the world. No single social science discipline ‘owns' identity research and The SAGE Handbook of Identities draws on a global scholarship to cover in four parts its:

Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.

Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalization, migratory patterns, biology and so on.

Categories: reviews research on the core social categories which are central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and social class and intersections between these.

Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships and family life, work-places and environments and citizenship.

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The SAGE Handbook of Identities
Identity research is at the heart of many trans-disciplinary research centers around the world. No single social science discipline ‘owns' identity research and The SAGE Handbook of Identities draws on a global scholarship to cover in four parts its:

Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.

Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalization, migratory patterns, biology and so on.

Categories: reviews research on the core social categories which are central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and social class and intersections between these.

Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships and family life, work-places and environments and citizenship.

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The SAGE Handbook of Identities

The SAGE Handbook of Identities

The SAGE Handbook of Identities

The SAGE Handbook of Identities

Overview

Identity research is at the heart of many trans-disciplinary research centers around the world. No single social science discipline ‘owns' identity research and The SAGE Handbook of Identities draws on a global scholarship to cover in four parts its:

Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.

Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalization, migratory patterns, biology and so on.

Categories: reviews research on the core social categories which are central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and social class and intersections between these.

Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships and family life, work-places and environments and citizenship.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781412934114
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication date: 04/14/2010
Pages: 560
Product dimensions: 7.30(w) x 9.80(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

Table of Contents

The Field of Identity Studies - Margaret Wetherell
PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity: From Ego to Ethics - Stephen Frosh
The Social-Identity Approach in Social Psychology - Stephen Reicher, Russell Spears & S Alexander Haslam
Anthropological Perspectives on Identity: From Sameness to Difference - Toon van Meijl
Analyzing Identity in Interaction: Contrasting Discourse, Genealogical, Narrative and Conversation Analysis - Bethan Benwell & Elizabeth Stokoe
Performative Identities: From Identity Politics to Queer Theory - Sarah E Chinn
Critical Crossovers: Post-Colonial Perspectives, Subaltern Studies and Cultural Identities - Saurabh Dube
New Epistemologies: Post-Positivist Accounts of Identity - Linda Martin Alcoff
PART TWO: FORMATIONS
Biology and Identity - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Race and Racial Formations - Harry J Elam Jr & Michele Elam
Identity: Culture and Technology - Rolland Munro
Relationality: The Intersubjective Foundations of Identity - Wendy Hollway
Religious Identity - Pnina Werbner
From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity - Helen Wood
Identity-Making in Schools and Classrooms - Diane Reay
PART THREE: CATEGORIES
Ethnicities - Ann Phoenix
Genders: Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Still on the Move - Lynne Segal
Class, Culture and Morality: Legacies and Logics in the Space for Identification - Beverley Skeggs
Sexualities - Cindy Patton
Indigeneity as a Field of Power: Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identities in Political Struggles - R Aída Hernández Castillo
Never Fixed: Modernity and Disability Identities - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson & Moya Bailey
PART FOUR: SITES AND CONTEXTS
From This Bridge Called My Back to This Bridge We Call Home: Collective Identities and Social Movements - Manisha Desai
Migrations, Diasporas, Nations: The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities - Carole Boyce Davies & Monica Jardine
Identities, Groups and Communities: The Case of Northern Ireland - Katharina Schmid et al
Families, Siblings and Identities - Helen Lucey
Neo-Liberalism, Work and Subjectivity: Towards a More Complex Account - Valerie Walkerdine & Peter Bansel
Legislating Identity: Colonialism, Land and Indigenous Legacies - Bonita Lawrence
PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS
Social Justice and the Politics of Identity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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