Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics - Couverture souple

Hetherington, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0803978774 ISBN 13 : 9780803978775

Editeur : 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 lo

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803978774
• ISBN 13: 9780803978775
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible