Interpreting Identities

Wayne Brekhus is Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri. Susie Scott is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sussex.

“With insightful analyses, exciting data and theoretical enquiries that directly address today’s rather intricate academic discussions about identity and power, this book becomes both a page-turner and an analytical exemplar.” David Wästerfors, Lund University

• 1. Introduction: Dimensions of Power, Presence, and Belonging in Contemporary Social Identities - Wayne H. Brekhus and Susie ScottPart 1: Interpreting Intersectional Identities: Unmarked Privilege and Marked Otherness2. ‘Way Down South in the Land of Cotton, Where Being White Is Not Forgotten’: White Southerners’ Negotiations of Identity and Advantage - James M. Thomas (JT), Madeline Burdine, and Erin Oakes 3. Trans Men Navigating Male Privilege and the Complexities of Intersectional Identities - Armani Beck 4. Expanding or Rejecting National Identities? Identity Work and Anti-Racism among Racialized Minorities in Norway - Mette Andersson 5. Standing up to Power: Black Women, Resistance Capital, and Intersectional Identities on College Campuses - Veronica A. NewtonPart 2: Negative Negotiations: Reverse, Rejected, Unmarked, and Aspirational Identities6. Are We What We (Don’t) Consume? From Negative Possible Selves to Identity Refusal in Consumption Contexts - Emma Banister7. Questions of Identity and Belonging among Hyper-Mobile Professionals - Patrizia Hoyer 8. Not Feeling Old but Looking Old? The Shaping of Identities and Non-Identities among Older Adults during a Pandemic - Emilia Leinonen 9. No-Body Relations and Negative Negotiations: Selfhood After Traumatic Loss - Georgie Akehurst10. Afterword: Interpreting Intersectional Identities and Negative Negotiations - Wayne H. Brekhus and Susie Scott