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Item Details
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EXPRESSIONS OF IDENTITY
SPACE, PERFORMANCE, POLITICS |
| By: |
Kevin Hetherington |
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Paperback |
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£62.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0803978774 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780803978775 |
| Publisher: |
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
14 September, 1998 |
| Series: |
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
This 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 |
| Synopsis: |
This 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 local, plural, situated and topologically complex. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
SAGE Publications Ltd |
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Non-returnable |
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