Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.…mehr
Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
NADIA JOANNE BRITTON Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester MALCOLM BROWN is writing a PhD thesis in the Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow BEN CARRINGTON Lecturer in Sociology, University of Brighton EMMA CLARENCE Research Assistant, Department of Public Policy, University of Central England IAN COOK Lecturer in Human Geography and Cultural Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter PHILIP CRANG Lecturer in Human Geography, University College London LORRAINE CULLEY Principal Lecturer and Head of Health SIMON DYSON Principal Lecturer in Health Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester SILVIA HAM-YING Principal Lecturer in Nursing, De Montfort University, Leicester JOSEPH MAGUIRE Reader in Sociology of Sport, Loughborough University LOUISE MANSFIELD Senior Lecturer in the Sport Science Department, Canterbury Christ Church College PAUL SWEETMAN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Durham SHIRLEY TATE Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Leeds Metropolitan University MARK THORPE Research Associate, University College London STEPHEN WHITEHEAD Lecturer in Postcompulsory Education, Keele University WENDY YOUNG formerly a Research Assistant, Department of Health, De Montfort University, Leicester
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index
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