Identity Revisited and Reimagined : Empirical and Theoretical Contributions on Embodied Communication Across Time and Space

In contrast to other studies on identity, this book takes its point of departure in the complexities that characterize and shape both individuals and societies - past and present. Its chapters challenge demarcated fields of study and conceptions of identity as gender, identity as functional disabili...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Bagga-Gupta, Sangeeta (Editor), Hansen, Aase Lyngvær (Editor), Feilberg, Julie (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Medical research.
Sociology.
Sociology > Research.
Quality of life.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319580562
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-58056-2
Physical DescriptionXXVII, 317 p. 33 illus., 18 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. Conceptional Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World; Editor's Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Many-Ways-of-Being. Identity as (Inter)Action; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg and Aase Lyngvær Hansen
  • Chapter 2. Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance; David Block
  • Chapter 3. Co-Constructing the Adolescent's Identity: Agency and Autonomy as Interactional Accomplishments; Marina Everri and Laura Sterponi
  • Chapter 4. The Complexities of Deaf Identities; Irene Leigh
  • Part II. Making, Undoing and Remaking: Performing Identities; Editor's Introduction
  • Chapter 5. Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in New Social Movements; Paul McIlvenny
  • Chapter 6. (Trans)Languaging and (Trans)Formation: Rethinking Identity in Adult Language Learning Classrooms; Jenny Rosén
  • Chapter 7. The Passage of Time as a Narrative Resource in Constructing a "Better" Self; Julia Sacher
  • Part III. Conveying Identities in Embodies Interaction; Editor's Introduction
  • Chapter 8. Embodied Communication in Pedagogical Relationships: Dancing Interactions; Geraldene Codin, Bridget Egan, Ann Fox and Penny Lawrencea
  • Chapter 9. "She Didn't Know I'm Black, You See" - Practices, Body Signs, and Professional Identity; Ellen Andenæs
  • Part IV. Identity Work in Institutional and Technology Mediated Environments; Editor's Introduction
  • Chapter 10. Mundane, Everyday Actions with Technology Questioning a Dominant View on Language Learning: A Case Study of a Deaf Sign Language Signer as a Learner of English; Elina Tapio
  • Chapter 11. "Janne X Was Here". Portraying Identities and Negotiating Being and Belonging in Informal Literacy Practices; Annaliina Gynne
  • Chapter 12. Identity and Culture Clashes in Cross Cultural Virtual Collaborations; Elisabeth Keating
  • Chapter 13. Identity Negotiations in a Visually Oriented Virtual Classroom; Johan Hjulstad
  • Afterword; Tommaso Milani.

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