Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

Product Description Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured. About the Author MAITE ESCUDERO ALÍAS University of Zaragoza, Spain AMÉLIA MARIA FERNANDES ALVES Embassy of Brazil in Caracas, Venezuela SUSAN AINSWORTH University of Sydney, Australia JEFFREY BRAITHWAITE University of New South Wales, Australia CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD University of Birmingham, UK MALCOLM COULTHARD, University of Aston, Birmingam, UK MARIA TEREZA LOPES DANTAS Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil DAVID GRANT University of Sydney, Australia RICK IEDEMA University of Technology, Sydney, Australia MICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI Lancaster University, UK BONSAN BONNE LEE Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia JAY L. LEMKE University of Michigan, USA SIRPA LEPPÄNEN University of Jyväskylä, Finland DEBBI LONG University of New South Wales. Australia DAVID MACHIN University of Leicester, UK PAUL McILVENY University of Aalborg, Denmark PIRKKO RAUDASKOSKI University of Aalborg, Denmark BRANCA TELLES RIBEIRO Lesley University, Boston, USA CARL RHODES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia HERMINE SCHEERES University of Technology, Sydney, Australia THEO VAN LEEUWEN University of Technology, Sydney, Australia RUTH WODAK University of Lancaster, UK STANTON WORTHAM University of Pennsylvania, USA