Identity trouble
Subtitle: critical discourse and contested identities
By: edited by Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, Rick Iedema.
Contributors: Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa.; Iedema, Rick.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781403945150
Subjects: Critical discourse analysis.; Identity (Psychology)
Description: In Identity Trouble, international scholars from discourse analysis, social semiotics, cultural theory, ethnography, conversational analysis, organization and pedagogy studies, come together to focus on the rising pressures on contemporary identity and on how people are increasingly crossing the borders that traditionally define self, space, learning and work. Particular attention is paid to occasions where our identity accomplishment comes under threat, or fails - the troubles that emerge during people's identity constructions and enactments as they face, or try to explain, rising personal, social, cultural and organizational uncertainties. The book is in two Parts: the first concerned with identity as articulation, challenge and resistance in the narration of public self, and the second concerned with analyses of educational, professional and institutional identities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Identity, development, and desire : critical questions / Jay L. Lemke; title: Branding the self / David Machin and Theo van Leeuwen; title: Identity work and transnational adoption : discursive representations of the 'adoptive-parent-to-be' in the satellite texts of a Danish TV documentary series / Pirkko Raudaskoski and Paul McIlvenny; title: When (non) Anglo-Saxon queers speak in a queer language : homogeneous identities or disenfranchised bodies? / Maite Escudero Alías; title: Multiple identities, migration and belonging : 'voices of migrants' / Michał Krzyżanowski and Ruth Wodak; title: Mongrel selves : identity change, displacement and multi-positioning / Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard and Amelia Maria Fernandes Alves; title: By their words shall ye know them : on linguistic identity / Malcolm Coulthard; title: Cybergirls in trouble? Fan ficiton as a discursive space for interrogating gender and sexuality / Sirpa Leppänen; title: 'I'm good.' 'I'm nice.' 'I'm beautiful.' Idealization and contradiction in female psychiatric patients' discourse / Branca Telles Ribeiro and Maria Tereza Lopes Dantas; title: Shifting identities in the classroom / Stanton Wortham; title: Triple trouble : undecidability, identity and organizational change / Carl Rhodes, Hermine Scheeres and Rick Iedema; title: Attempting clinical democracy : enhancing multivocality in a multidisciplinary clinical team / Debbi Long, Bonsan Bonne Lee and Jeffrey Braithwaite; title: Embodying the contemporary 'clinician-manager' : entrepreneurializing middle management? / Rick Iedema, Susan Ainsworth and David Grant.