Theorizing Identities and Social Action

  • Margaret Wetherell
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Part of the Identity Studies in the Social Sciences book series (IDS)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Margaret Wetherell
      Pages 1-16

  3. Biographies and Personal Trajectories

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 17-17
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    2. Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood
      Heather Elliott, Yasmin Gunaratnam, Wendy Hollway, Ann Phoenix
      Pages 19-37
    3. Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change
      Jane Martin, John Kirk, Christine Wall, Steve Jefferys
      Pages 38-55
    4. Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees
      Nira Yuval-Davis, Erene Kaptani
      Pages 56-74
    5. Tales of Two or Many Worlds? When ‘Street’ Kids Go Global
      Gareth A. Jones, Sarah Thomas de Benítez
      Pages 75-92

  4. Interactions and Institutions

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 93-93
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    2. Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes
      Elizabeth Stokoe, Derek Edwards
      Pages 95-115
    3. Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic
      Susan A. Speer
      Pages 116-138
    4. Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairments
      Charles Antaki, W. M. L. Finlay, Chris Walton
      Pages 139-153

  5. Communities, Cities and Nations

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 155-155
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    2. Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens
      Jane Wills
      Pages 157-176
    3. Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity
      Katharina Schmid, Miles Hewstone, Joanne Hughes, Richard Jenkins, Ed Cairns
      Pages 177-197
    4. Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children
      Charles Watters, Rosa Hossain, Rupert Brown, Adam Rutland
      Pages 198-219
    5. Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast
      Dominic Bryan, Sean Connolly
      Pages 220-237
    6. 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
      Pages 238-255
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 256-269
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About this book

Introduction

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.

Editors and affiliations

  • Margaret Wetherell
    • 1
  1. 1.Open UniversityUK

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230246942
  • Copyright Information Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
  • Publisher Name Palgrave Macmillan, London
  • eBook Packages Palgrave Social Sciences Collection
  • Print ISBN 978-1-349-36883-9
  • Online ISBN 978-0-230-24694-2
  • About this book