Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

✍ Scribed by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Rick Iedema

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 310
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 8
Notes on Editors and Contributors......Page 9
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities......Page 16
Part 1 Doing Identity Analysis: Articulation, Challenge, Resistance in the Narration of the Public and of the Self......Page 30
1 Identity, Development, and Desire: Critical Questions......Page 32
2 Branding the Self......Page 58
3 Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the ‘Adoptive-Parent-To-Be’ in the Satellite Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series......Page 73
4 When (non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak in a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?......Page 92
5 Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging: ‘Voices of Migrants’......Page 110
6 Mongrel Selves: Identity Change, Displacement and Multi-Positioning......Page 135
7 By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity......Page 158
8 Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality......Page 171
9 ‘I’m good.’ ‘I’m nice.’ ‘I’m beautiful.’ Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients’ Discourse......Page 195
Part 2 New Ways of Understanding Identity/Identities in Professional Settings......Page 218
10 Shifting Identities in the Classroom......Page 220
11 Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change......Page 244
12 Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidisciplinary Clinical Team......Page 265
13 Embodying the Contemporary ‘Clinician-Manager’: Entrepreneurializing Middle Management?......Page 288
F......Page 307
M......Page 308
S......Page 309
Y......Page 310