Chandra Talpade Mohanty & Margaret Wetherell 
The SAGE Handbook of Identities [PDF ebook] 

Overall, its breaking of disciplinary isolation, enhancing of mutual understanding, and laying out of a transdisciplinary platform makes this Handbook a milestone in identity studies.


– Sociology



Increasingly, identities are the site for interdisciplinary initiatives and identity research is at the heart of many transdisciplinary research centres around the world. No single social science discipline ′owns′ identity research which makes it a difficult topic to categorize.




The SAGE Handbook of Identities systematizes this complex field by incorporating its interdisciplinary character to provide a comprehensive overview of its themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity. Drawing on a global scholarship the Handbook has four parts:

• Frameworks: presents the main theoretical and methodological perspectives in identities research.


• Formations: covers the major formative forces for identities such as culture, globalisation, migratory patterns, biology and so on.


• Categories: reviews research on the core social categories central to identity such as ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability and intersections between these.


• Sites and Context: develops a series of case studies of crucial sites and contexts where identity is at stake such as social movements, relationships, work-places and citizenship.
  
  

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The Field of Identity Studies – Margaret Wetherell

PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity: From Ego to Ethics – Stephen Frosh

The Social-Identity Approach in Social Psychology – Stephen Reicher, Russell Spears & S Alexander Haslam

Anthropological Perspectives on Identity: From Sameness to Difference – Toon van Meijl

Analyzing Identity in Interaction: Contrasting Discourse, Genealogical, Narrative and Conversation Analysis – Bethan Benwell & Elizabeth Stokoe

Performative Identities: From Identity Politics to Queer Theory – Sarah E Chinn

Critical Crossovers: Post-Colonial Perspectives, Subaltern Studies and Cultural Identities – Saurabh Dube

New Epistemologies: Post-Positivist Accounts of Identity – Linda Martin Alcoff

PART TWO: FORMATIONS

Biology and Identity – Anne Fausto-Sterling

Race and Racial Formations – Harry J Elam Jr & Michele Elam

Identity: Culture and Technology – Rolland Munro

Relationality: The Intersubjective Foundations of Identity – Wendy Hollway

Religious Identity – Pnina Werbner

From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity – Helen Wood

Identity-Making in Schools and Classrooms – Diane Reay

PART THREE: CATEGORIES

Ethnicities – Ann Phoenix

Genders: Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Still on the Move – Lynne Segal

Class, Culture and Morality: Legacies and Logics in the Space for Identification – Beverley Skeggs

Sexualities – Cindy Patton

Indigeneity as a Field of Power: Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identities in Political Struggles – R Aída Hernández Castillo

Never Fixed: Modernity and Disability Identities – Rosemarie Garland-Thomson & Moya Bailey

PART FOUR: SITES AND CONTEXTS

From This Bridge Called My Back to This Bridge We Call Home: Collective Identities and Social Movements – Manisha Desai

Migrations, Diasporas, Nations: The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities – Carole Boyce Davies & Monica Jardine

Identities, Groups and Communities: The Case of Northern Ireland – Katharina Schmid et al

Families, Siblings and Identities – Helen Lucey

Neo-Liberalism, Work and Subjectivity: Towards a More Complex Account – Valerie Walkerdine & Peter Bansel

Legislating Identity: Colonialism, Land and Indigenous Legacies – Bonita Lawrence

PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS

Social Justice and the Politics of Identity – Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Sobre el autor

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.