Identity Trouble Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

by Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen Rosa; Iedema, Rick

• ISBN13: 9781403945150
• ISBN10: 1403945152
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. Rick Iedema is Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Table of Contents

Tables and Figures	p. vii
Notes on Editors and Contributors	p. viii
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities	p. 1
Doing Identity Analysis: Articulation, Challenge, Resistance in the Narration of the Public and of the Self	p. 15
Identity, Development, and Desire: Critical Questions	p. 17
Branding the Self	p. 43
Identity Work and Transnational Adoption: Discursive Representations of the 'Adoptive-Parent-To-Be' in the Satellite Texts of a Danish TV Documentary Series	p. 58
When (non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak in a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?	p. 77
Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging: 'Voices of Migrants'	p. 95
Mongrel Selves: Identity Change, Displacement and Multi-Positioning	p. 120
By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity	p. 143
Cybergirls in Trouble? Fan Fiction as a Discursive Space for Interrogating Gender and Sexuality	p. 156
'I'm good.' 'I'm nice.' 'I'm beautiful.' Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients' Discourse	p. 180
New Ways of Understanding Identity/Identities in Professional Settings	p. 203
Shifting Identities in the Classroom	p. 205
Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change	p. 229
Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidisciplinary Clinical Team	p. 250
Embodying the Contemporary 'Clinician-Manager': Entrepreneurializing Middle Management?	p. 273
Index	p. 292
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