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 b such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding b and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together. INDICE: - Introduction: The Identity/Action Relation; M.Wetherell - PART I: BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL TRAJECTORIES - Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood; H.Elliott, Y.Gunaratnam, W.Hollway ; A.Phoenix - Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change; J.Martin with J.Kirk, C.Wall ; S.Jefferys - Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre Among Refugees; N.Yuval-Davis ; E.Kaptani - Tales ofTwo or Many Worlds? When 'Street' Kids go Global; G.Jones ; S.T.De Benitez - PART II: INTERATCIONS AND INSTITUTIONS - Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes; E.Stokoe ; D.Edwards - Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic; S. Speer - Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairment; C.Antaki, M.Finlay ; C.Walton - PART III: COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND NATIONS - Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens; J.Wills - Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity; K.Schmid, M. Hewstone, J.Hughes, R.Jenkins ; E.Cairns - Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children; C.Watters, R.Hossain, R.Brown ; A.Rutland - Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast; S.Connolly ; D.Bryan - Defining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales; A.Livingstone, R.Spears, A.Manstead ; M.Bruder
- ISBN: 978-0-230-58088-6
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 22/10/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés