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Hetherington, Kevin (1998). Expressions of Identity: Space, Performance, Politics. Theory, Culture and Society. London, UK: Sage Publications.
URL: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Expressions-Identity-Perfo...
Abstract
About the book: This innovative book sets out to question what we understand by the term `new social movements'. By examining a range of issues associated with identity politics and alternative lifestyles, the author challenges those who treat new social movements as instances of wider social change while often ignoring their more `local' and `dispersed' importance.
This book questions what it means to adopt an identity that is organised around issues of expressivism - and offers a series of non-reductionist ways of looking at identity politics.
Hetherington analyzes expressive identities through issues of performance, spaces of identity and `the occasion'. This important work shows how the significance of identity politics are at once local, plural, situated and topologically complex.