Identity in the 21st Century

1. Introduction: Negotiating Liveable Lives — Identity in Contemporary Britain
Margaret Wetherell

Part I. Class and Community

2. Individualization and the Decline of Class Identity
Anthony Heath, John Curtice, Gabriella Elgenius

3. ‘I Don’t Want to Be Classed, But We Are All Classed’: Making Liveable Lives Across Generations
Ben Rogaly, Becky Taylor

4. Steel, Identity, Community: Regenerating Identities in a South Wales Town
Valerie Walkerdine

5. White Middle-Class Identity Work Through ‘Against the Grain’ School Choices
David James, Diane Reay, Gill Crozier, Fiona Jamieson, Phoebe Beedell, Sumi Hollingworth, Katya Williams

Part II. Ethnicities and Encounters

6. Ethnicities Without Guarantees: An Empirical Approach
Roxy Harris, Ben Rampton

7. ‘Con-viviality’ and Beyond: Identity Dynamics in a Young Men’s Prison
Rod Earle, Coretta Phillips

8. Imagining the ‘Other’/Figuring Encounter: White English Middle-Class and Working-Class Identifications
Simon Clarke, Steve Garner, Rosie Gilmour

9. The Subjectivities of Young Somalis: The Impact of Processes of Disidentification and Disavowal
Gill Valentine, Deborah Sporton

10. Living London: Women Negotiating Identities in a Postcolonial City
Rosie Cox, Sue Jackson, Meena Khatwa, Dina Kiwan

Part III. Popular Culture and Relationality

11. The Making of Modern Motherhoods: Storying an Emergent Identity
Rachel Thomson, Mary Jane Kehily, Lucy Hadfield, Sue Sharpe

12. The Allure of Belonging: Young People’s Drinking Practices and Collective Identification
Christine Griffin, Andrew Bengry-Howell, Chris Hackley, Willm Mistral, Isabelle Szmigin

13. The Transformation of Intimacy: Classed Identities in the Moral Economy of Reality Television
Beverley Skeggs, Helen Wood

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Personality and Social Psychology, Sociology, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Social Structure, Social Inequality