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Marked Identities

Narrating Lives between Social Labels and Individual Biographies

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  • © 2015

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  1. Roberta Piazza

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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  2. Alessandra Fasulo

    1. University of Portsmouth, UK

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Alessandra Fasulo, Roberta Piazza
    Pages 1-15

  3. ‘Since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings […] Now [People]…Understand More ‘Cos of That Programme’: Irish Travellers’ Identity Between Stigmatisation and Self-Image

    • Roberta Piazza
    Pages 16-42

  4. The Nice Stasi Man Drove His Trabi to the Nudist Beach: Contesting East German Identity

    • Molly Andrews
    Pages 43-57

  5. ‘They Paint Everyone With the Same Brush but It Just Simply Isn’t the Case’: Reconstructing and Redefining Homeless Identities

    • Phoebe Trimingham
    Pages 58-78

  6. On the Margins: Aboriginal Realities and ‘White Man’s Research’

    • Maria I. Medved, Jens Brockmeier
    Pages 79-97

  7. ‘Racial Laws Turned Our Lives Positively’: Agentivity and Chorality in the Identity of a Group of Italian Jewish Witnesses

    • Roberta Piazza, Antonia Rubino
    Pages 98-122

  8. Young Motherhood: Is It Really a Case of ‘shattered Lives and Blighted Futures’?

    • Hilary Bruffell
    Pages 123-148

  9. Reordered Narratives and the Changes in Self-Understanding From Addiction to Recovery

    • Georgia-Zetta Kougiali
    Pages 149-169

  10. History in Waiting: Receiving a Diagnosis of Asperger in Midlife

    • Alessandra Fasulo, Philip Adrian Hunt, Perry Isadore
    Pages 170-191

  11. Afterword

    • Anna De Fina
    Pages 192-196

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 197-200
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Western society has become increasingly diverse, but stereotypes still persist in the public discourse. This volume explores how people who have a marked status in society - among them Travellers, teenage mothers, homeless people - manage their identity in response to these stereotypes.

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“Marked Identities prompts important questions about the nature of narrative and identity, about researching alterity, about the force of simplistic and reductive social analyses, and about adaption, resilience, resistance and change. It rides a current in narrative studies that offers researchers tools with which to articulate the complex and fluid processes of becoming, and hence may be of interest to researchers looking to refresh narrative explorations of educational identities and inequalities.” (Mark Pulsford, Power and Education, Vol. 8 (1), 2016)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Roberta Piazza

  • University of Portsmouth, UK

    Alessandra Fasulo

About the editors

Alessandra Fasulo, University of Portsmouth, UK Molly Andrews, University of East London, UK Hilary Bruffell, Open University, UK Phoebe Trimingham, BBC News, UK Maria Medved, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Jens Brockmeier, University of Manitoba, Canada, and American University of Paris, France Roberta Piazza, University of Sussex, UK Georgia Kougiali, University of Cambridge, UK Antonia Rubino, University of Sydney, Australia

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