Introduction The Field of Identity Studies - Margaret Wetherell PART ONE: FRAMEWORKS Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Identity - Stephen Frosh From Ego to Ethics The Social Identity Approach in Social Psychology - Stephen Reicher, Russell Spears and S Alexander Haslam Anthropological Perspectives on Identity - Toon van Meijl From Sameness to Difference Analyzing Identity in Interaction - Bethan Benwell and Elizabeth Stokoe Contrasting Discourse, Genealogical, Narrative and Conversation Analysis Performative Identities - Sarah E Chinn From Identity Politics to Queer Theory Critical Crossovers - Saurabh Dube Post-Colonial Perspectives, Subaltern Studies and Cultural Identities New Epistemologies - Linda Martin Alcoff Post-Positivist Accounts of Identity PART TWO: FORMATIONS Biology and Identity - Anne Fausto-Sterling Race and Racial Formations - Harry J Elam Jr and Michele Elam Identity - Rolland Munro Culture and Technology Relationality - Wendy Hollway The Intersubjective Foundations of Identity Religious Identity - Pnina Werbner From Media and Identity to Mediated Identity - Helen Wood Identity-Making in Schools and Classrooms - Diane Reay PART THREE: CATEGORIES Ethnicities - Ann Phoenix Genders - Lynne Segal Deconstructed, Reconstructed, Still on the Move Class, Culture and Morality - Beverley Skeggs Legacies and Logics in the Space for Identification Sexualities - Cindy Patton Indigeneity as a Field of Power - R Aida Hernandez Castillo Multiculturalism and Indigenous Identities in Political Struggles Never Fixed - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and Moya Bailey Modernity and Disability Identities PART FOUR: SITES AND CONTEXTS From This Bridge Called My Back to This Bridge We Call Home - Manisha Desai Collective Identities and Social Movements Migrations, Diasporas, Nations - Carole Boyce Davies and Monica Jardine The Re-Making of Caribbean Identities Identities, Groups and Communities - Katharina Schmid et al The Case of Northern Ireland Families, Siblings and Identities - Helen Lucey Neo-Liberalism, Work and Subjectivity - Valerie Walkerdine and Peter Bansel Towards a More Complex Account Legislating Identity - Bonita Lawrence Colonialism, Land and Indigenous Legacies PART FIVE: REFLECTIONS Social Justice and the Politics of Identity - Chandra Talpade Mohanty.