Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.
Acknowledgements List of Illustrations and Photographs Notes on Contributors Practising Identities: Power and Resistance; S.Roseneil & J.Seymour Cricket, Culture and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Significance of Sport within Back Communities; B.Carrington Making Your Body Your Signature: Weight-Training and Transgressive Femininities; S.Tate Marked Bodies, Oppositional Identities? Tattooing, Piercing and the Ambiguity of Resistance; P.Sweetman Active Women, Power Relations and Gendered Identities: Embodies Experiences of Aerobics ; L.Mansfield & J.Maguire Contingent Masculinities: Disruptions to 'Man'agerialist Identity; S.Whitehead Racialized Identity and the Term 'Black'; N.J.Britton Caribbean Nurses: Racisms, Resistances and Healing Narratives; L.Culley, S.Dyson, S.Ham-Ying & W.Young Orientalism and Resistance to Orientalism: Muslim Identities in Contemporary Western Europe; M.D.Brown Citizenship and Identity: The Case of Australia; E.Clarence Eating into Britishness: Multicultural Imaginaries and the Identity Politics of Food; I.Cook, P.Crang & M.Thorpe Index
