Description
Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.
This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:
- the history of identity as a construct
- the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity
- the prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity
- the interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres
- an expanded version of positioning theory
- the digital universe as the future of identity research.
Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful means through which we can understand identity today. The book is essential reading for students and academics studying and researching within the area of language and identity.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Revisiting identity: A short, selective history
2 Key elements in the poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity
3 Towards a Marxist approach to identity: From recognition and redistribution debates to a historical materialist view of being in the world
4 From structure and agency to structuring spheres
5 Expanding positioning theory
6 Applying the expanded model of positioning theory: An example
7 Conclusion
References
Index
