Identity, Ethnic Diversity and Community Cohesion

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. Rob Berkeley has been Director of the Runnymede since January 2009. He was Deputy Director between 2005 and 2009. His doctoral studies focused on exclusion from school.He has been Chair of governors at a South London primary school, Chair of Naz Project London (which provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to various minority ethnic communities), and a Trustee of Stonewall, and the Equality and Diversity Forum, and a member of the Commission on 2020 Public Services.

This book provides an excellent and up-to-date overview of the key issues on identity, ethnic diversity and social cohesion in an era where these have come under increasing scrutiny in public discourse. It is suitable to be recommended as a key text in a variety of modules at various levels.

• Community Cohesion and Identity Dynamics: Dilemmas and Challenges - Margaret WetherellPOLICY STANDPOINTS: AGENCIES AND UTTERANCESThe Case for Progressive Solidarity - Henry TamBuilding an Integrated Society - Nick JohnsonIdentity Formation and Change in British Muslim Communities - Dilwar HussainPolicy, Identity and Community Cohesion: How Race Equality Fits - Omar KhanIDENTITIES IN COMMUNITY CONTEXTS: FOUR CASE STUDIESWelcome to ′Monkey Island′: Identity and Community in Three Norwich Estates - Ben Rogaly and Becky TaylorEthnicity, Identity and Community Cohesion in Prison - Coretta PhillipsHome, Identity and Community Cohesion - Simon Clarke, Rosie Gilmour and Steve GarnerPrejudice, Intergroup Contact and Identity: Do Neighbourhoods Matter? - Miles Hewstone, Nicole Tausch, Joanne Hughes and Ed CairnsREFLECTIONS AND THE WAY AHEAD: TOWARDS NEW DIALOGUESCohesive Identities: The Distance between Meaning and Understanding - Claire AlexanderAcknowledged Identities: a Common Endeavour or Wider Hostilities? - Kate GavronReasoned Identities: a Committed Relationship - Bhikhu ParekhNon-binarized Identities of Similarity and Difference - Avtar Brah