| Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities 2008 Edition Contributor(s): Caldas-Coulthard, C. (Editor), Iedema, R. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1403945152 ISBN-13: 9781403945150 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: "Identity Trouble" brings together contributions from a wide variety of discourse fields to discuss the rising pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced with social, cultural, organizational or other changes and fluidities. The contributions raise a number of critical questions about the concept of identity and how it may be refigured, and draw on a wide range of empirical studies of identity problems in personal and social life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Minority Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion |
| Dewey: 401.41 |
| LCCN: 2007048118 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.9" W x 8.55" (1.08 lbs) 310 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured. |
