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"Western society has become increasingly diverse and inclusive, but stereotypes still pervade public discourse. How do people who for different reasons have a marked status in society manage their identity and respond to stereotypes? This edited volume explores this issue with people who either belong to a culturally salient group - Travellers, Jewish survivors, Canadian First Nation women, ex DDR citizens - or whose circumstances make them potential targets of discrimination - teenage mothers, homeless people, substance users and individuals with autism. The interviews in these chapters reveal how their life narratives resist, change or incorporate society's views about them"--
List of contents
Introduction; Alessandra Fasulo and Roberta Piazza 1. '... Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (...) Now [People] ... Understand More 'cos of that Programme': Irish Travellers' Identity between Stigmatisation and Self-image; Roberta Piazza 2. The Nice Stasi Man Drove his Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German identity; Molly Andrews 3. 'They Paint Everyone with the Same Brush but it Just Simply isn't the Case': Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities; Phoebe Trimingham 4. On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and 'White Man's Research'; Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier 5. 'The Racial Laws have Turned our Lives Positively': Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses; Roberta Piazza and Antonia Rubino 6. Young Motherhood: Is it Really a Case of 'Shattered Lives and Blighted Futures'?; Hilary Bruffell 7. Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-understanding from Addiction to Recovery; Georgia-Zetta Kougiali 8. History in Wait: Receivinga Diagnosis of Asperger in Mid-life; Alessandra Fasulo in collaboration with Philip Adrian Hunt and Perry Isidore Afterword; Anna De Fina
About the author
Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK Molly Andrews, University of East London, UK Hilary Bruffell, Open University, UK Phoebe Trimingham, BBC News, UK Maria Medved, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK Georgia Kougiali, University of Cambridge, UK Antonia Rubino, University of Sydney, Australia
Report
"Marked Identities prompts important questions about the nature of narrative and identity, about researching alterity, about the force of simplistic and reductive social analyses, and about adaption, resilience, resistance and change. It rides a current in narrative studies that offers researchers tools with which to articulate the complex and fluid processes of becoming, and hence may be of interest to researchers looking to refresh narrative explorations of educational identities and inequalities." (Mark Pulsford, Power and Education, Vol. 8 (1), 2016)
