Practising Identities: Power and Resistance

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Practising Identities: Power and Resistance....Pages 1-10
Cricket, Culture and Identity: an Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Black Communities....Pages 11-32
Making your Body your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities....Pages 33-54
Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance....Pages 55-80
Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodied Experiences of Aerobics....Pages 81-106
Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to ‘Man’agerialist Identity....Pages 107-133
Racialized Identity and the Term ‘Black’....Pages 134-154
Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives....Pages 155-179
Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe....Pages 180-198
Citizenship and Identity: the Case of Australia....Pages 199-222
Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food....Pages 223-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-257