This book explores thesocialand political significance of contemporary recog...This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability race and ethnicity nationalism class and sexuality drawing on accounts from Europe the USA Latin America the Middle East and...more
This book explores thesocialand political significance of contemporary recog...This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability race and ethnicity nationalism class and sexuality drawing on accounts from Europe the USA Latin America the Middle East and...more
This book explores thesocialand political significance of contemporary recog...This book explores the social and political significance of contemporary recognition contests in areas such as disability race and ethnicity nationalism class and sexuality drawing on accounts from Europe the USA Latin America the Middle East and...more
In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining andContesting ...In National (un)Belonging: Bengali American Women on Imagining and Contesting Culture and Identity Roksana Badruddoja focuses on the intersections of race ethnicity gender sexuality religion citizenship and nationalism among contemporary...more
In a vivid ethnographic account of immigrant groups living in West London Gerd...In a vivid ethnographic account of immigrant groups living in West London Gerd Baumann breaks with the conventional discourse of community studies to explore their mutual interaction. By treating Southall--the most densely populated multi-ethnic...more
Focusing on the academic study of religion Claiming Identityinthe Study of R...Focusing on the academic study of religion Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion is the first in a series that grapples with the historicity of identity and the social and rhetorical techniques that make claims to identity possible. In this...more
This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the doing and maki...This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the doing and making of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme the chapters take core social actions - such as performing excluding mixing...more
This volume examines race gender andidentityin African American culture. As ...This volume examines race gender and identity in African American culture. As with previous volumes in the series these collected essays provide a social science and interdisciplinary framework for the exploration of Africana cultural and social...more
This volume examines race gender andidentityin African American culture. As ...This volume examines race gender and identity in African American culture. As with previous volumes in the series these collected essays provide a social science and interdisciplinary framework for the exploration of Africana cultural and social...more
This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occ...This book explores understandings and experiences of dirty work - tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the clean/dirty divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways...more
This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debate...This book presents an accessible and fascinating account of theoretical debates around identity and work recent empirical trends and methodological arguments concerning the role of oral testimony and its interpretation. Focusing on three...more
This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous people...This book uses identity theories to explore the struggles of indigenous peoples against the domination of the settler imaginary in Australia Canada New Zealand and the United States. The book argues that a new relational imaginary can revolutionize...more
A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930 that shows how mea...A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930 that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges accepted wisdom on the white working class providing...more
Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them ...Why do people enter total institutions - places that confine and control them around the clock - and how does the experience change them? This book updates Goffman s classic model by introducing the Re-inventive Institution where members voluntarily...more
A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930 that shows how mea...A major new study of white working class Britain since 1930 that shows how meanings of poverty have changed over time and how individuals reject categorization by the state. This book challenges accepted wisdom on the white working class providing...more