Research Catalog

Title

Theorizing identities and social action / edited by Margaret Wetherell.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wetherell, Margaret, 1954-

Description

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the doing and making of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Identity studies in the social sciences

Uniform Title

Identity studies in the social sciences

Subject

• Group identity
• Social interaction
• group identity
• Gruppenidentität
• Gruppenverhalten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Practices, identification and identity change in the transition to motherhood / Heather Elliott [and others] -- Biography, education and civic action: teaching generations and social change / Jane Martin [and others] -- Performing identities: participatory theatre among refugees / Nira Yuval-Davis and Erene Kaptani -- Tales of two or many worlds? When 'street' kids go global / Gareth A. Jones and Sarah Thomas de Benitez -- Accomplishing social action with identity categories: mediating and policing neighbour disputes / Elizabeth Stokoe and Derek Edwards -- Passing as a transsexual woman in the gender identity clinic / Susan A. Speer -- Identity at home: offering everyday choices to people with intellectural impairments / Charles Antaki, W.M.L. Finlay and Chris Walton -- Identity making for action: the example of London citizens / Jane Wills -- Residential segregation and intergroupp contact: consequences for intergroup relations, social capital and social identity / Katharina Schmid [and others] -- Crossing thresholds: acculturation and social capital in British Asian children / Charles Watters [and others] -- Identity, social action and public space: defining civic space in Belfast / Dominic Bryan and Sean Connolly -- Defining common goals without speaking the same language: social identity and social action in Wales / Andrew Livingstone [and others].

ISBN

• 9780230580886
• 0230580882
• 9780230246942
• 023024694X

LCCN

2009044250

OCLC

• ocn461324060
• 461324060
• SCSB-8803885

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library