Theorizing Identities and Social Action

This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the 'doing' and 'making' of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions – such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding – and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together.

Introduction: The Identity/Action Relation; M.Wetherell PART I: BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL TRAJECTORIES Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood; H.Elliott, Y.Gunaratnam, W.Hollway & A.Phoenix Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change; J.Martin with J.Kirk, C.Wall & S.Jefferys Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre Among Refugees; N.Yuval-Davis & E.Kaptani Tales of Two or Many Worlds? When ''Street'' Kids go Global; G.Jones & S.T.De Benitez PART II: INTERATCIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes; E.Stokoe & D.Edwards Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic; S. Speer Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairment; C.Antaki, M.Finlay & C.Walton PART III: COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND NATIONS Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens; J.Wills Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity; K.Schmid, M. Hewstone, J.Hughes, R.Jenkins & E.Cairns Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children; C.Watters, R.Hossain, R.Brown & A.Rutland Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast; S.Connolly & D.Bryan Defining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales; A.Livingstone, R.Spears, A.Manstead & M.Bruder