Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics - Brossura

Hetherington, Kevin

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0803978774 ISBN 13: 9780803978775

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

Riassunto

This innovative book sets out to question what we understand by the term `new social movements'. By examining a range of issues associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles, the author challenges those who treat new social movements as instances of wider social change while often ignoring their more `local' and `dispersed' importance.

This book questions what it means to adopt an identity that is organised around issues of expressivism - and offers a series of non-reductionist ways of looking at identity politics.

Hetherington analyzes expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity and `the occasion'. This important work shows how the significance of identity politics are at once lo

Su questo libro

L'autore

Kevin Hetherington is Lecturer in Aociology in the Depatment of Human Sciences, Brunel University. He is author of Badlands of Modernity (1997) and co-editor of Consumption Matters (1996) and Ideas of Difference (1997).

Contenuti

PART ONE: IDENTITY, IDENTIFICATION AND EXPRESSIVE ORGANIZATION
Identity Spaces and Identity Politics
Tribal Vibes
Expressivism and Identification
Situations and Occasions
The Structure of Feeling and Everyday Life
Expressive Organization and Emotional Communities
PART TWO: SOCIAL SPACE AND THE PERFORMANCE OF IDENTITY
Introduction
The Elsewhere of Other Meaning
Marginal Spaces and the Topology of Utopia
Spaces for the Occasion
Embodiment and the Performance of Identity
Afterword
Telling Horizontal Stories

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803978774
• ISBN 13: 9780803978775
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 192