COMMUNICATING IDENTITY

ISBN: 9781621313977 Géneros: GTC Sinópsis: Communicating Identity Critical Approaches provides a poststructuralist engagement with contemporary theories of identity which view identity as a construction negotiation and a process of communicative messages Embracing an intersectional investigation of identity and examining the critical interworkings of race class gender sexuality and nation this edited anthology contemplates the shifting and fluid dimensions of identities within spatial temporal and discursive contextsBringing together works from scholars in the disciplines of organizational communication criticalcultural studies rhetorical and media studies performance studies and intercultural communication the text is divided into four sectionsTheorizing Identity provides a poststructuralist introduction to identity through differing conceptual frameworks that highlight the performative relational and intersectional dimensions of identity formationsOrganizing Identity looks to institutional and national contexts to examine how systems of power and hierarchal structures within organizing discourses work to shape mold constrain and produce disciplined identitiesRepresenting Identity looks to popular culture online environments and personal accounts of experience as sites of identity production and negotiationPerforming Identity shifts attention to the spatial temporal and embodied dimensions of identity work theorizing performative dimensions that resist and rearticulate identity discoursesJason Zingsheim PhD Arizona State University is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Governors State University where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in intercultural communication criticalcultural studies identity and communication and communication theory and philosophy His work has been published in Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies Text Performance Quarterly Liminalities and Battleground Women Gender SexualityDustin Bradl