Identity Revisited and Reimagined

Part I. Conceptual Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World

1. Many Ways-of-Being Across Sites. Identity as (Inter)action
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg, Aase Lyngvær Hansen

2. Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance
David Block

3. Refusing What We Are: Communicating Counter-Identities and Prefiguring Social Change in Social Movements
Paul McIlvenny

4. Center-Staging Language and Identity Research from Earthrise Positions. Contextualizing Performances in Open Spaces
Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta

Part II. Making, Undoing and Remaking: Performing Identities

5. Co-constructing the Adolescent’s Identity: Agency and Autonomy as Interactional Accomplishments
Marina Everri, Laura Sterponi

6. Rethinking Identity in Adult Language Learning Classrooms
Jenny Rosén

7. The Passage of Time as a Narrative Resource in Constructing a Better Self
Julia Sacher

Part III. Politically Framed Identities in Embodied Interaction

8. From Political to National Identity in Zanzibar. Narratives on Changes in Social Practices
Sigrun Marie Moss

9. “She Didn’t Know I’m Black, You See”. Practices, Body Signs, and Professional Identity
Ellen Andenæs

10. The Complexities of Deaf Identities
Irene W. Leigh

Part IV. Identity Work in Institutional and Technology Mediated Environments

11. “They Blame, They Complain but They Don’t Understand”: Identity Clashes in Cross-Cultural Virtual Collaborations
Elizabeth Keating

12. Identity Negotiations in a Visually Oriented Virtual Classroom
Johan Hjulstad

13. “Janne X Was Here”. Portraying Identities and Negotiating Being and Belonging in Informal Literacy Practices
Annaliina Gynne

14. A Moment of Self-Revelation as a Turning Point in Understanding LanguageLearning
Elina Tapio

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Quality of Life Research, Research Methodology