Identity trouble: critical discourse and contested identities

Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured. INDICE: - Tables and Figures - Notes on Editors and Contributors - Preface- Acknowledgements - Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities; R.Iedema; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard - PART 1: DOING IDENTITY ANALYSIS: ARTICULATION, CHALLENGE, RESISTANCE IN THE NARRATION OF THE PUBLIC AND OF THE SELF - Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions; J.L.Lemke - Branding the Self; S.Machin; T.van Leeuwen - Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the 'Adoptive-Parent-To-Be' in the Satellite Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series; P.Raudaskoski; P.McIlveny -When (Non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?; M.Escudero Alías - Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging:' Voices of Migrants'; M.Krzyzanowski& R.Wodak - Mongrel Selves:Identity Changes, Displacement and Multi-positioning; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard& A.M.Fernandes Alves - By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity; M.Coulthard - Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality; S.Leppänen - 'I'm Good', 'I'm Nice', 'I'm Beautiful': Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients' Discourse; B.Telles Ribeiro; M.T.Lopes Dantas - PART 2: NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY/ IDENTITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS - Shifting Identities in the Classroom; S.Wortham - Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change; C.Rhodes, H.Scheeres; R.Iedema - Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidiciplinary Clinical Team; D.Long, B.Bonne Lee; J.Braithwaite - Embodying the Contemporary 'Clinician-Manager': Entrepreneurializing Middle Management; R.Iedema, S.Ainsworth; D.Grant - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-27974-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 06/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés