Interpreting Identities

Wayne Brekhus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri. Susie Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex.

• 1. Introduction: Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging in Contemporary Social Identities - Wayne H. Brekhus and Susie ScottPart 1: Interpreting Intersectional Identities: Unmarked Privilege and Marked Otherness2. ‘Way Down South in the Land of Cotton, Where Being White Is Not Forgotten’: White Southerners’ Negotiations of Identity and Advantage - James M. Thomas (JT), Madeline Burdine, and Erin Oakes 3. Trans Men Navigating Male Privilege and the Complexities of Intersectional Identities - Armani Beck 4. Expanding or Rejecting National Identities? Identity Work and Anti-Racism among Racialized Minorities in Norway - Mette Andersson 5. Standing up to Power: Black Women, Resistance Capital, and Intersectional Identities on College Campuses - Veronica A. NewtonPart 2: Negative Negotiations: Reverse, Rejected, Unmarked, and Aspirational Identities6. Are We What We (Don’t) Consume? From Negative Possible Selves to Identity Refusal in Consumption Contexts - Emma Banister7. Questions of Identity and Belonging among Hyper-Mobile Professionals - Patrizia Hoyer 8. Not Feeling Old but Looking Old? The Shaping of Identities and Non-Identities among Older Adults during a Pandemic - Emilia Leinonen 9. No-Body Relations and Negative Negotiations: Selfhood After Traumatic Loss - Georgie Akehurst10. Afterword: Interpreting Intersectional Identities and Negative Negotiations - Wayne H. Brekhus and Susie Scott

“With insightful analyses, exciting data and theoretical enquiries that directly address today’s rather intricate academic discussions about identity and power, this book becomes both a page-turner and an analytical exemplar.” David Wästerfors, Lund University