| Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics Contributor(s): Hetherington, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0803978774 ISBN-13: 9780803978775 Publisher: Sage Publications UK OUR PRICE: $77.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: 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. Looking at the question of what it means to adopt an identity that is organized around issues of expressivism-neo-tribal identifications, structures of feeling, emotional communities and their expressive organization-the author offers a series of nonreductionist ways of looking at identity politics. By analyzing expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity, and "the occasion," Kevin Hetherington argues that the significance of identity politics and the changes it brings about within society are local, plural, situated, and topologically complex, challenging the still persistent singular idea of new social movements as historical agents of change. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| LCCN: 98-61015 |
| Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 6.36" W x 9.18" (0.73 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 lo |
Contributor Bio(s): Hetherington, Kevin: - 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). |