Identity Trouble Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

In Identity Trouble, international scholars from discourse analysis, social semiotics, cultural theory, ethnography, conversational analysis, organization and pedagogy studies, come together to focus on the rising pressures on contemporary identity and on how people are increasingly crossing the borders that traditionally define self, space, learning and work. Particular attention is paid to occasions where our identity accomplishment comes under threat, or fails - the troubles that emerge during people's identity constructions and enactments as they face, or try to explain, rising personal, social, cultural and organizational uncertainties.

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. Rick Iedema is Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Clinical Governance Research at the University of New South Wales, Australia.