The SAGE Handbook of Identities systematizes this complex field by incorporating its interdisciplinary character to provide a comprehensive overview of its themes in contemporary research while still acknowledging the historical and philosophical significance of the concept of identity.

Table of Contents

• Handbook Advisory Panel
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• The Field of Identity Studies - Margaret Wetherell
• Frameworks
• 1 Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity: From Ego to Ethics - Stephen Frosh
• 2 The Social Identity Approach in Social Psychology - Stephen Reicher Russell Spears S. Alexander Haslam
• 3 Anthropological Perspectives on Identity: From Sameness to Difference - Toon van Meijl
• 4 Analysing Identity in Interaction: Contrasting Discourse, Genealogical, Narrative and Conversation Analysis - Bethan Benwell Elizabeth Stokoe
• 5 Performative Identities: From Identity Politics to Queer Theory - Sarah E. Chinn
• 6 Critical Crossovers: Postcolonial Perspectives, Subaltern Studies and Cultural Identities - Saurabh Dube
• 7 New Epistemologies: Post-Positivist Accounts of Identity - Linda Martín Alcoff
• Formations
• 8 Biology and Identity - Anne Fausto-Sterling
• 9 Race and Racial Formations - Harry J. Elam, Jr Michele Elam
• 10 Identity: Culture and Technology - Rolland Munro
• 11 Relationality: The Intersubjective Foundations of Identity - Wendy Hollway
• 12 Religious Identity - Pnina Werbner
• 13 From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity - Helen Wood
• 14 Identity Making in Schools and Classrooms - Diane Reay
• Social Categories
• 15 Ethnicities - Ann Phoenix
• 16 Genders: Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Still on the Move - Lynne Segal
• 17 Class, Culture and Morality: Legacies and Logics in the Space for Identification - Beverley Skeggs
• 18 Sexualities - Cindy Patton
• 19 Indigeneity as a Field of Power: Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identities in Political Struggles - R. Aída Hernández Castillo
• 20 Never Fixed: Modernity and Disability Identities - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Moya Bailey
• Sites and Contexts
• 21 From This Bridge Called My Back to This Bridge We Call Home: Collective Identities and Social Movements - Manisha Desai
• 22 Migrations, Diasporas, Nations: The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities Carole Boyce Davies and Monica Jardine
• 23 Identities, Groups and Communities: The Case of Northern Ireland - Katharina Schmid Miles Hewstone Nicole Tausch Richard Jenkins Joanne Hughes Ed Cairns
• 24 Families, Siblings and Identities - Helen Lucey
• 25 Neoliberalism, Work and Subjectivity: Towards a More Complex Account - Valerie Walkerdine Peter Bansel
• 26 Legislating Identity: Colonialism, Land and Indigenous Legacies - Bonita Lawrence
• Reflections
• 27 Social Justice and the Politics of Identity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty