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Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.
List of contents
Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction; R.Iedema & C.R.Caldas-Coulthard PART 1: DOING IDENTITY ANALYSIS: ARTICULATION, CHALLENGE, RESISTANCE IN THE NARRATION OF THE PUBLIC AND OF THE SELF Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions; J.L.Lemke Branding the Self; T.van Leeuwen & S.Machin Identity Knots and Kinship Troubles; P.McIlveny & P.Raudaskoski When (Non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?; M.Escudero Alías Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging:' Voices of Migrants'; M.Krzyzanowski & R.Wodak Mongrel Selves: Narratives of Displacement and Multi-positioning; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard & A.M.Fernandes Alves By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity; M.Coulthard Writing (Trans)local Gender in Fan Fiction; S.Leppänen "I'm Good", "I'm Beautiful", "I'm Nice": Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients' Discourse; B.Telles Ribeiro & M.T.Lopes Dantas PART 2: NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY/ IDENTITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS The Interdependence of Social Identification and Cognition in Classroom Discourse; S.Wortham Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change; C.Rhodes, H.Scheeres & R.Iedema Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidiciplinary Clinical Team; D.Long, B.Bonne Lee & J.Braithwaite The Contemporary 'Clinician-Manager': Entrepreneurializing Middle Management; R.Iedema, S.Ainsworth & D.Grant Index
About the author
MAITE ESCUDERO ALÍAS University of Zaragoza, Spain
AMÉLIA MARIA FERNANDES ALVES Embassy of Brazil in Caracas, Venezuela
SUSAN AINSWORTH University of Sydney, Australia
JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE University of New South Wales, Australia
CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD University of Birmingham, UK
MALCOLM COULTHARD, University of Aston, Birmingam, UK
MARIA TEREZA LOPES DANTAS Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DAVID GRANT University of Sydney, Australia
RICK IEDEMA University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
MICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI Lancaster University, UK
BONSAN BONNE LEE Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia
JAY L. LEMKE University of Michigan, USA
SIRPA LEPPÄNEN University of Jyväskylä, Finland
DEBBI LONG University of New South Wales. Australia
DAVID MACHIN University of Leicester, UK
PAUL McILVENY University of Aalborg, Denmark
PIRKKO RAUDASKOSKI University of Aalborg, Denmark
BRANCA TELLES RIBEIRO Lesley University, Boston, USA
CARL RHODES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
HERMINE SCHEERES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
THEO VAN LEEUWEN University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
RUTH WODAK University of Lancaster, UK
STANTON WORTHAM University of Pennsylvania, USA
Summary
Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.
