Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research av David (Univeristat Pompeu Fabra Spain) Block

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<P><EM>Innovations and Challenges in Identity Research </EM>examines established and emergent issues within identity research.</P><P></P><P>This innovative book adopts a disciplinary transcendent<EM></EM>approach, drawing on a range of social science, humanities and human science disciplines on the way to a detailed consideration of:</P><UL><P><LI>the history of identity as a construct </LI><P></P><P><LI>the components of a poststructuralist/social constructivist approach to identity</LI><P></P><P><LI>the prospect of a Marxist political economy approach to identity</LI><P></P><P><LI>the interrelationship between structure and agency and a model of structuring spheres<BR></LI><LI>an expanded version of positioning theory</LI><P></P><P><LI>the digital universe as the future of identity research.</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>Leading researcher David Block provides a personal take on this key topic of study in applied linguistics and explains why and how discourse analysis is still a useful m