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

Hetherington, Kevin

 
9780803978775: Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803978774 ISBN 13: 9780803978775
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

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.

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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).

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

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