Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

✍ Scribed by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Rick Iedema (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 308
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions....Pages 17-42
Branding the Self....Pages 43-57
Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the ‘Adoptive-Parent-To-Be’ in the Satellite Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series....Pages 58-76
When (non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak in a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?....Pages 77-94
Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging: ‘Voices of Migrants’....Pages 95-119
‘Mongrel Selves’: Identity Change, Displacement and Multi-Positioning....Pages 120-142
By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity....Pages 143-155
Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality....Pages 156-179
‘I’m good.’ ‘I’m nice.’ ‘I’m beautiful.’ Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients’ Discourse....Pages 180-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Shifting Identities in the Classroom....Pages 205-228
Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change....Pages 229-249
Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidisciplinary Clinical Team....Pages 250-272
Embodying the Contemporary ‘Clinician-Manager’: Entrepreneurializing Middle Management?....Pages 273-291
Back Matter....Pages 292-295

✦ Subjects

Gender Studies;Sociology of Culture;Linguistics, general;Discourse Analysis;Sociolinguistics;Multilingualism

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