Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, PoliticsSAGE, 1998 M09 14 - 192 pages 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 local, plural, situated and topologically complex. |
Contents
Identity Identification and Expressive Organisation | 14 |
Identity Spaces and Identity Politics | 21 |
Expressivism and Identification | 41 |
The Structure of Feeling | 61 |
Expressive Organisation and Emotional Communities | 83 |
Social Space and the Performance of Identity | 101 |
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| Title | Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Author | Dr Kevin Hetherington |
| Publisher | SAGE, 1998 |
| ISBN | 144622791X, 9781446227916 |
| Length | 192 pages |
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