Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138019416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 408 str.

Anthony Elliott

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The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century. The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts to postmodern, psychoanalytic and feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised, and there are substantive sections looking at racial, ethnic, gendered, queer, consumerist, virtual and global identities. The Handbook also makes an essential contribution to the debate now opening up over identity-politics and its cultural consequences. From anti-globalization protestors to new ecological warriors, from devotees of therapy culture to defenders of international human rights: the culture of identity-politics is fast redefining the public political sphere. What future for politics is there after the turn to identity? Throughout there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity with essays covering sociology, psychology, politics, cultural studies and history. The Handbook's clear and direct style will appeal to a wide undergraduate audience in the social sciences and humanities.

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Editor's Introduction by Anthony Elliott  Part 1: Theories of Identity  1. A History of Identity: The Riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life by Charles Lemert  2. Historical and Intellectual Development of Topic by Ann Branaman  3. Identity after Psychoanalysis by Stephen Frosh  4. Foucaultian Approaches to the Self by Gavin Kendall  5. The Fragmentation of Identity: Post-structuralist and Postmodern Theories by Sam Han  6. Reflexive Identities by Daniel Chaffee  7. Individualization by Cosmo Howard  8. New Identities, New Individualism by Eric L. Hsu  Part 2: The Analysis of Identity  9. Transformations of Working Identities: Labour and the Self by Daniel Mendelson  10. Identity, Race and Ethnicity by Anthony Moran  11. Gendered Identities by Mary Holmes  12. Media and Identity by Nick Stevenson  13. Virtual Identities: From Decentred to Distributed Selves by Sam Han  14. Consumer Identities by Roberta Sassatelli  15. Identity, Mortality and Death by Tamara Waraschinski and Charles Lemert  Part 3: Identity-politics and its Consequences  16. Sexual Identity Politics: Activism from Gay to Queer and Beyond by Mark Casey  17. Environmentalism and Identity Politics by Eileen M. McGurty  18. Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity by David Stein  19. The Politics of Islamic Identities by Sundas Ali  20. Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism by Anthony Moran  21. Anti-Globalization and Resistance Identities by Catherine Eschle  22. Identity-Politics in the Global Age by Giogrio Shani