The SAGE Handbook of Identities

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action.

• The Field of Identity Studies - Margaret Wetherell PART ONE: FRAMEWORKSPsychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity: From Ego to Ethics - Stephen Frosh The Social-Identity Approach in Social Psychology - Stephen Reicher, Russell Spears & S Alexander Haslam Anthropological Perspectives on Identity: From Sameness to Difference - Toon van Meijl Analyzing Identity in Interaction: Contrasting Discourse, Genealogical, Narrative and Conversation Analysis - Bethan Benwell & Elizabeth Stokoe Performative Identities: From Identity Politics to Queer Theory - Sarah E Chinn Critical Crossovers: Post-Colonial Perspectives, Subaltern Studies and Cultural Identities - Saurabh Dube New Epistemologies: Post-Positivist Accounts of Identity - Linda Martin Alcoff PART TWO: FORMATIONSBiology and Identity - Anne Fausto-Sterling Race and Racial Formations - Harry J Elam Jr & Michele ElamIdentity: Culture and Technology - Rolland Munro Relationality: The Intersubjective Foundations of Identity - Wendy Hollway Religious Identity - Pnina Werbner From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity - Helen Wood Identity-Making in Schools and Classrooms - Diane Reay PART THREE: CATEGORIESEthnicities - Ann Phoenix Genders: Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Still on the Move - Lynne SegalClass, Culture and Morality: Legacies and Logics in the Space for Identification - Beverley Skeggs Sexualities - Cindy Patton Indigeneity as a Field of Power: Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identities in Political Struggles - R Aída Hernández CastilloNever Fixed: Modernity and Disability Identities - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson & Moya Bailey PART FOUR: SITES AND CONTEXTSFrom This Bridge Called My Back to This Bridge We Call Home: Collective Identities and Social Movements - Manisha Desai Migrations, Diasporas, Nations: The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities - Carole Boyce Davies & Monica Jardine Identities, Groups and Communities: The Case of Northern Ireland - Katharina Schmid et alFamilies, Siblings and Identities - Helen Lucey Neo-Liberalism, Work and Subjectivity: Towards a More Complex Account - Valerie Walkerdine & Peter Bansel Legislating Identity: Colonialism, Land and Indigenous Legacies - Bonita Lawrence PART FIVE: REFLECTIONSSocial Justice and the Politics of Identity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty

Overall, its breaking of disciplinary isolation, enhancing of mutual understanding, and laying out of a transdisciplinary platform makes this Handbook a milestone in identity studies.