Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Negotiating Liveable Lives — Identity in Contemporary Britain....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Individualization and the Decline of Class Identity....Pages 21-40
‘I Don’t Want to Be Classed, But We Are All Classed’: Making Liveable Lives Across Generations....Pages 41-58
Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town....Pages 59-75
White Middle-Class Identity Work Through ‘Against the Grain’ School Choices....Pages 76-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach....Pages 95-119
‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison....Pages 120-138
Imagining the ‘Other’/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications....Pages 139-156
The Subjectivities of Young Somalis: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal....Pages 157-174
Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Postcolonial City....Pages 175-194
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity....Pages 197-212
The Allure of Belonging: Young People’s Drinking Practices and Collective Identification....Pages 213-230
The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television....Pages 231-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-261