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Marked Identities: Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies
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Description for Marked Identities: Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies
Hardcover. Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes. Editor(s): Piazza, Roberta; Fasulo, Alessandra. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 150 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.
Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137332806
SKU
V9781137332806
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99-15
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Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK Molly Andrews, University of East London, UK Hilary Bruffell, Open University, UK Phoebe Trimingham, BBC News, UK Maria Medved, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK Georgia Kougiali, University of Cambridge, UK Antonia ... Read more
Reviews for Marked Identities: Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies
“Marked Identities prompts important questions about the nature of narrative and identity, about researching alterity, about the force of simplistic and reductive social analyses, and about adaption, resilience, resistance and change. It rides a current in narrative studies that offers researchers tools with which to articulate the complex and fluid processes of becoming, and hence may be of interest to ... Read more