The Cambridge handbook of identity / edited by Michael Bamberg, Clark University, Massachusetts, Carolin Demuth, Aalborg University, Denmark, Meike Watzlawik, Sigmund Freud University, Berlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bamberg, Michael G. W., 1947- editor.

Watzlawik, Meike, 1975- editor.

Demuth, Carolin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 652 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

While 'identity' is a key concept in psychology and the social sciences, researchers have used and understood this concept in diverse and often contradictory ways. The Cambridge Handbook of Identity presents the lively, multidisciplinary field of identity research as working around three central themes: (i) difference and sameness between people; (ii) people's agency in the world; and (iii) how identities can change or remain stable over time. The chapters in this collection explore approaches behind these themes, followed by a close look at their methodological implications, while examples from a number of applied domains demonstrate how identity research follows concrete analytical procedures. Featuring an international team of contributors who enrich psychological research with historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the handbook also explores contemporary issues of identity politics, diversity, intersectionality, and inclusion. It is an essential resource for all scholars and students working on identity theory and research.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1 Identity: With or Without You?: Perspectives and Choices Guiding This Handbook

1.1 Organization of the Book

Part I: The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity

Part II: New Perspectives and Challenges

Part III: Methodological Approaches

Part IV: Current Domains

References

Part I The Origin and Development of the Concept of Identity

2 Decentering Histories of Identity

2.1 Contemporary Identity Discourses

2.1.1 Identity

2.1.2 Self

2.1.3 Subjectivity

2.1.4 Individuality and Authenticity

2.1.5 Aware(ness), Conscious(ness), Conscientious, Conscience

2.1.6 Returning to Identity

2.2 A European History of Identity Discourses

2.2.1 Problems with Modern Projects of Identity Histories

2.2.2 The European Identity Project as a History of Material and Socio-Political Conditions

2.2.3 The European Project as a History of Identity Discourses

2.2.4 Decentering European Modern Identity: Alternative Modernities, Indigeneity, and the Global Transformation

2.3 Identity and Modern Psychology

2.3 Alternatives?

3 Challenges in Research on Self-Identity

3.1 Continuity

3.2 Uniqueness

3.3 Agency

3.4 Challenges

4 The Mystery of Identity: Fundamental Questions, Elusive Answers

4.1 Excursus: Coming to Terms with the Mystery

4.2 Narrative, Identity, and the Problem of Fictionality

4.3 Erosion and Creation

4.4 Unknowing Identity

4.5 Coda: In the Aftermath

Part II New Perspectives and Challenges

5 A Moral Perspective: Identity as Self-Interpretation

5.1 Historical Background

5.2 Identity as Self-Interpretation

5.2.1 The Moral Dimension of Identity as Self-Interpretation.

5.2.2 The Narrative Dimension of Identity as Self-Interpretation

5.2.3 Levels of Self-Interpretation and How They Clash in Consumer Society

5.3 Conclusions

6 Researching Identities as Affective Discursive Practices

6.1 The Development of Affective Practices and Critical Social Psychology

6.2 Identity, Affect, and Affective Discursive Practices

6.2.1 Fleshing Out the ''Turn to Affect''

6.2.2 Theorizing Identity: An Affective Discursive Approach

6.2.3 Identity, Emotion, and Agency

6.3 Identities and Affective Discursive Practices: An Illustration

6.3.1 Interviewing Mia

6.3.2 Feeling Positions and Affective Discursive Formations

6.3.3 Identifications, Investments, and Identity Work

6.3.4 Objects, Places, Sounds, Images

6.4 Conclusion

7 The Negotiation of Continuity and Change of Mapuche Women Weavers in Chile and Its Implications for (Non-Eurocentric) Identity Research

7.1 The Mapuche People of Southern Chile

7.1.1 The Mapuche Weaver-Women and Variations in the Symbols Depicted on Textiles as a Sign of Identity Transformation

7.1.2 Sense of Continuity and Dialogicality in the Sense of Self

7.1.3 The Multiplicity of Positions in the Emergence of the Mapuche Weaver Identity

Reducing Tension through Symbol Alterations

7.1.4 Sense of Continuity Despite Change and Innovations

7.1.5 Discussing Identities on the Basis of Emerging Voices and Positions

7.2 Final Considerations and Open Questions

8 Identity and Voices: A Language-Dialogical Take

8.1 Dialogism

8.2 The Field of Mediated Activity

8.2.1 The Language Spacetime and Its Voices

The Language Spacetime

Voices

8.3 Identity as Fielded Process: An Illustration

8.3.1 Field and Protagonists

8.3.2 Performed Voices, Calls, and Replies

Lines 15-18 and Reprise 24-27.

Lines 20 and 22-23

Lines 13-14 and 29-30

Overview of Voices in Call and Reply

8.4 Analytic Considerations

8.4.1 Identity: Being Called by Voices

8.5 Challenges and Concluding

9 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity: From Ego to Life Narrative

9.1 The Topic of Identity in Psychoanalysis before Its Conceptualization

9.2 Erikson's Concept of Psychosocial Identity

9.3 Self in Relation to Others: Object Relations Theories

9.4 Epistemic Asceticism, or Identity as a Fleeting Momentary Co-Production

9.5 A Psychoanalytically Informed Conception of Narrative Identity: The Problem of Diachronic Identity and the Life Story

9.5.1 Identity and the Life Story

9.5.2 Life Story Strategies to Create Self-Continuity across Biographical Ruptures and Self-Knowledge

9.5.3 Stability of Lives and Life Stories

9.6 Conclusion

10 Erikson, the Identity Statuses, and Beyond

10.1 Erikson on Identity

10.2 The Meaning and Evolution of Marcia's Identity Construct

10.2.1 What Are the Identity Statuses?

No Identity Status Is Necessarily Permanent

No Identity Status is Unmixed

Identity Status Constructs Can Become Reified

10.2.2 The Identity Statuses: Associated Personality Variables, Antecedents, Consequences, and Patterns of Development

10.2.3 Identity Exploration and Commitment Studies: Recent Developments From Marcia's Paradigm

10.2.4 Identity Exploration and Commitment Approaches: Gains and Losses

10.2.5 Clinical Implications of Marcia's Identity Status Approach

10.3 Conclusions: Reflections on the Past and Future of Identity Study

Part III Methodological Approaches

11 A Narrative Practice Approach to Identities: Small Stories and Positioning Analysis in Digital Contexts

11.1 Stories as/in Practice

11.1.1 Sharing Stories as/in Practice Online.

11.1.2 Levels of Positioning Analysis

11.1.3 Positioning Cues

11.1.4 Affective Positioning

11.1.5 Affective Positioning in Death-Writing of the Moment

Level 1: Affective Positioning vis-à-vis Cancer

Level 2: Affective Positioning vis-à-vis the Viewing Audience

Level 3: Affective Positioning vis-à-vis the Self

11.2 Summary and Conclusion

Appendix Transcript Key

Transcript Key

12 Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: Identity at Stake in a Kinship Carers' Support Group

12.1 Conversation Analysis: Its Ethnomethodological Background

12.2 The Development of CA's Approach to Identity

12.3 CA Studies of Identity and Family Identities

12.4 Kinship Care and the Question of Identity

12.5 CA's ''Method'' and Unit of Analysis

12.6 Identity at Stake in a Kinship Care Support Group: Establishing Identity in Third-Party Complaints

12.7 Discussion

13 Foucauldian-Informed Discourse Analysis

13.1 Key Foucauldian Ideas for Identity Researchers

13.2 Changing the Subject

13.3 Worked Example

13.3.1 Planning, Access, and Ethics

13.3.2 Data Collection Processes

13.3.3 Analysis

13.4 Conclusion

References and Further Reading

14 A Methodology to Examine Identity: Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis

14.1 Multimodal (Inter)action Analysis: Background

14.2 An Illustration

14.2.1 Conflict Between Continuous and General Identity Elements

14.2.2 Bringing in Meso Practices and Macro Discourses to Make Sense of the Micro Actions

14.2.3 Production of a Fluid Identity Element

14.2.4 Bringing in Meso Practices and Macro Discourses to Make Sense of the Micro Actions

14.3 Conclusion

15 Autoethnography

15.1 Orienting to the Study of Identity

15.2 Autoethnography: A Personal and Cultural Story.

15.3 History and Development of Autoethnography

15.4 Doing Autoethnography

15.5 Why Autoethnography Matters

15.5.1 Autoethnography/Identities as Intertwined

15.5.2 Cultural Issues (on Identities)

15.5.3 Uneasiness with Identities

15.5.4 Autoethnography for Autoethnographers

15.6 Outlook on Autoethnographic Research

16 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity through Diary Studies

16.1 A Sociocultural Approach to Identity

16.2 Diaries: A Technology of Identity

16.2.1 Diary Analysis Methodology

A. Chronology

B. Microgenesis

C. Ontogenesis

16.2.2 Illustrative Diary Analysis

B. Microgenesis at Three Periods

16.3 Conclusion

17 Positioning Microanalysis: A Method For the Study of Dynamics in the Dialogical Self and Identity

17.1 The Dialogical Self and the Notion of Position

17.1.1 The Triadic Structure of a Dialogical Position

17.1.2 Looking at Identity through the Lens of the Dialogical Self

17.2 Positioning Microanalysis: A Methodological Proposal to Study the Dynamics of the Dialogical Self and Identity

17.2.1 Phases of Analysis

17.2.2 Phase 1: Preliminary Work

Research Questions and Data Selection

Training

Illustration of Phase 1: Exploring and Understanding Sequences of Positions around Clinical Problems in the Case of Lisa

17.2.3 Phase 2: Dividing the Transcript into Response Units (Unitizing)

Illustration of Phase 2

17.2.4 Phase 3: Aggregating Units into Thematic Objects

Illustration of Phase 3

17.2.5 Phase 4: Characterization and Labeling of Positions

Illustration of Phase 4

17.2.6 Phase 5: Finding Patterns of Positioning through Interpretative Analysis

Illustration of Phase 5: Finding Patterns of Positioning through Interpretative Analysis

17.3 Conclusion

References.

18 Synthesized or Confused Field? A Critical Analysis of the State-of-the-Art in Identity Status Research Methods.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Nov 2021).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781108620246

1108620248

9781108617284

110861728X

9781108755146

1108755143

OCLC:

1481795910