Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research examines established and emergent issues within identity research.
This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendentapproach, 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.
Author(s): David Block
Series: Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 158
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Revisiting Identity: A Short, Selective History
Introduction
Preliminary Matters
Frantz Fanon and Postcoloniality/decoloniality
Beyond Fanon: The Post-/decolonial Legacy
Developments in the Social Sciences: The Rise of Globalisation
The Turn to Identity: The Groundbreaking Work of Giddens and Others
Risk, Reflexivity and Individualisation
Stuart Hall and the Influence of Cultural Studies
Technology and Identity
Conclusion: Towards an Understanding of Identity
2 Key Elements in the Poststructuralist/social Constructivist Approach to Identity
Introduction
Emergentism, Heteroglossia and Performativity
Multimodality
Indexicality and Style
Belonging, Stigma, Authenticity and Ambivalence
Identity Inscriptions
Multiple Selves, Multiple Scales
Conclusion
3 Towards a Marxist Approach to Identity: From Recognition and Redistribution Debates to a Historical Materialist View of Being in the World
Introduction
Recognition and Redistribution
Marxist Historical Materialism
Marxist Humanism
Examples of Marxist Humanism
Inequality, Class, Class Struggle and Class Warfare
Ideology, Power and Resistance
Conclusion
Note
4 From Structure and Agency to Structuring Spheres
Introduction
Understandings of Structure and Agency
Bringing Structure More Prominently Into the Equation
Spheres of Structures Shaping Our Lives
Conclusion
5 Expanding Positioning Theory
Introduction
Positioning Theory and Narrative Inquiry
Orders in Positioning Theory
Positioning Theory and the Narrative Turn
Expanding Positioning Theory
Critical Discourse Studies and PT
A New Model of Positioning Theory
Conclusion
6 Applying the Expanded Model of Positioning Theory: An Example
Introduction
Background
Excerpt 1: On School Trajectory and Studies
Excerpt 2: Racism and Inclusion/exclusion
Excerpt 3: Immigration and the Hard Road to Belonging
Discussion
Excerpt 4: Contrasting Spanish and Chinese Students
Conclusion
7 Conclusion
Introduction
The Digital Age and Identity
Algorithmic Identities and Influencers
The Digital Divide and Class
Conclusion
References
Index
