Sage Handbook Of Identities, The

Description:
Increasingly, identities are the site for interdisciplinary initiatives and identity research is at the heart of many transdisciplinary research centres around the world. No single social science discipline 'owns' identity research which makes it a difficult topic to categorize. 'The SAGE Handbook of Identities' systematizes this complex field by incorporating its interdisciplinary character to provide a comprehensive overview of its themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity. Drawing on a global scholarship, the Handbook has four parts: Frameworks presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research; Formations covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalisation, 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; and 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.

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