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Practising Identities is a collection of papers about how identities - gender, bodily, racial, ethnic and national - are practised in the contemporary world. Identities are actively constructed, chosen, created and performed by people in their daily lives, and this book focuses on a variety of identity practices, in a range of different settings, from the gym and the piercing studio, to the further education college and the National Health Service. Drawing on detailed empirical studies and recent social and cultural theory about identity this book makes an important intervention in current debates about identity, reflexivity, and cultural difference.

Product Description: This volume brings together selected essays on the relationship of culture and consumption. In particular, it stresses the variety of ways in which consumption is structured and organized through culture and cultures, and how in turn cultural technologies of consumption construct the person, the senses and the self...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)