Identity in the 21st Century: New Trends in Changing Times (Identity Studies in the Social Sciences)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Negotiating Liveable Lives – Identity in Contemporary Britain......Page 16
Part I: Class and Community......Page 34
1 Individualization and the Decline of Class Identity......Page 36
2 ‘I Don’t Want to Be Classed, But We Are All Classed’: Making Liveable Lives Across Generations......Page 56
3 Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town......Page 74
4 White Middle-Class Identity Work Through ‘Against the Grain’ School Choices......Page 91
Part II: Ethnicities and Encounters......Page 108
5 Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach......Page 110
6 ‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison......Page 135
7 Imagining the ‘Other’/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications......Page 154
8 The Subjectivities of Young Somalis: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal......Page 172
9 Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Postcolonial City......Page 190
Part III: Popular Culture and Relationality......Page 210
10 The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity......Page 212
11 The Allure of Belonging: Young People’s Drinking Practices and Collective Identification......Page 228
12 The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television......Page 246
Appendix A: List of the Economic and Social Research Council Funded Projects Informing the Volume......Page 265
B......Page 267
C......Page 268
G......Page 269
I......Page 270
M......Page 271
P......Page 272
R......Page 273
S......Page 274
W......Page 275
Z......Page 276