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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Negotiating Liveable Lives — Identity in Contemporary Britain
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Class and Community
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Front Matter
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Ethnicities and Encounters
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
'This important collection of original essays, using state-of-the-art quantitative and qualitative methods, offers fascinating insights into the complex ways that power relations inscribe contemporary social identities.' - Professor Mike Savage, the University of Manchester, UK
'This is an important book on multicultural Britain. It grounds theoretical debates in richly textured empirical analyses, and parts of the book read like a good novel, with real lives and histories unfolding in front of our eyes. Students and professional academics interested in the changing dynamics of social identities in contemporary societies especially culturally diverse societies such as the U.S, Brazil, South Africa, or India - should read this book. Humanists in particular will find this work done by their colleagues in the social sciences very illuminating, and it will suggest ways that humanists and social scientists can work together to explore topics of common interest. Social identity, the focus of this volume, is clearly one such topic.' - Satya P. Mohanty
Professor of English, Cornell University, and Director of the International Future of Minority Studies (FMS) Summer Institute (www.fmsproject.cornell.edu), USA
'...this edited collection delivers the greatest beneficial impact when read in themed sections; however, it is certainly flexible if the reader only wishes to focus on a specific research project. An essential read for all those interested in contemporary formations of identity in the 21st century.' - Michelle Addison, Newcastle University UK, Sociology
Editors and Affiliations
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Open University, UK
Margaret Wetherell
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Identity in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: New Trends in Changing Times
Editors: Margaret Wetherell
Series Title: Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245662
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-58087-9Published: 05 November 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-24566-2Published: 05 November 2009
Series ISSN: 2947-7786
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7794
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 261
Topics: Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality