Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Hetherington, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803978774 ISBN 13: 9780803978775

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Expressions of Identity This work explains what is understood by the term "new social movements", and provides a critical assessment of identity politics. It examines a range of issues including neo-tribalism associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles. Full description

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Kevin Hetherington is Lecturer in Aociology in the Depatment of Human Sciences, Brunel University. He is author of Badlands of Modernity (1997) and co-editor of Consumption Matters (1996) and Ideas of Difference (1997).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0803978774
• ISBN 13: 9780803978775
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192