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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.

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Author:   C. Caldas-Coulthard ,  R. Iedema
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2008
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9781349522736

ISBN 10:   1349522732
Pages:   295
Publication Date:   01 January 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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"

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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

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