Theorizing identities and social action / edited by Margaret Wetherell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wetherell, Margaret, 1954-

Series:

Identity studies in the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 269 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

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

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.

Contents:

Part I Biographies and Personal Trajectories

1 Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood / Heather Elliott, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Wendy Hollway, Ann Phoenix 19

2 Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change / Jane Martin, John Kirk, Christine Wall, Steve Jefferys 38

3 Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees / Nira Yuval-Davis, Erene Kaptani|56

4 Tales of Two or Many Worlds? When 'Street' Kids Go Global / Gareth A. Jones, Sarah Thomas de Benitez|75

Part II Interactions and Institutions

5 Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes / Elizabeth Stokoe, Derek Edwards 95

6 Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic / Susan A. Speer 116

7 Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairments / Charles Antaki, W. M. L. Finlay, Chris Walton 139

Part III Communities, Cities and Nations

8 Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens / Jane Wills 157

9 Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity / Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, Joanne Hughes, Richard Jenkins, Ed Cairns 177

10 Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children / Charles Watters, Rosa Hossain, Rupert Browit, Adam Rutland 198

11 Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Denning Civic Space in Belfast / Dominic Bryan, Sean Connolly 220

12 Defining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales / Andrew Livingstone, Russell Spears, Antony S. R. Manstead, Martin Bruder 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230580886

0230580882

OCLC:

461324060