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Marked identities

narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies

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An edition of Marked identities (2014)

Marked identities

narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies

"Western society has become increasingly diverse and inclusive, but stereotypes still pervade public discourse. How do people who for different reasons have a marked status in society manage their identity and respond to stereotypes? This edited volume explores this issue with people who either belong to a culturally salient group - Travellers, Jewish survivors, Canadian First Nation women, ex DDR citizens - or whose circumstances make them potential targets of discrimination - teenage mothers, homeless people, substance users and individuals with autism. The interviews in these chapters reveal how their life narratives resist, change or incorporate society's views about them"--

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English
Pages
200

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Marked identities: narrating lives between social labels and individual biographies
2015, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer
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Cover of: Marked Identities
Marked Identities
2014, Palgrave Macmillan
in English

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Table of Contents

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Introduction; Alessandra Fasulo and Roberta Piazza1. '... Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings (...) Now [People]... Understand More 'cos of that Programme': Irish Travellers' Identity between Stigmatisation and Self-image; Roberta Piazza2. The Nice Stasi Man Drove his Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German identity; Molly Andrews3. 'They Paint Everyone with the Same Brush but it Just Simply isn't the Case': Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities; Phoebe Trimingham4. On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and 'White Man's Research'; Maria I. Medved and Jens Brockmeier5. 'The Racial Laws have Turned our Lives Positively': Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses; Roberta Piazza and Antonia Rubino6. Young Motherhood: Is it Really a Case of 'Shattered Lives and Blighted Futures'?; Hilary Bruffell7. Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-understanding from Addiction to Recovery; Georgia-Zetta Kougiali8. History in Wait: Receiving a Diagnosis of Asperger in Mid-life; Alessandra Fasulo in collaboration with Philip Adrian Hunt and Perry IsidoreAfterword; Anna De Fina.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.44
Library of Congress
P302.84 .M37 2015, P40-40.5HM1001-1281H

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 200 pages
Number of pages
200

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31035044M
ISBN 13
9781137332806
LCCN
2014028976
OCLC/WorldCat
883132883

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL23200988W

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