Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, PoliticsThis 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 |
Contents
Identity Identification and Expressive Organisation | 21 |
Expressivism and Identification | 41 |
The Structure of Feeling | 61 |
Expressive Organisation and Emotional Communities | 83 |
Social Space and the Performance of Identity | 101 |
Marginal Spaces and the Topology of Utopia | 123 |
Embodiment and | 141 |
Afterword Telling Horizontal Stories | 157 |
Index | 175 |
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