Social representations and identity : content, process and power / edited by Gail Moloney and Iain Walker. - New York : Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. - xii, 247 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Gail Moloney and Iain Walker -- Moving people and shifting representations: making immigrant identities / Kay Deaux and Shaun Wiley -- Social representations of alterity in the United States / Gina Philoge -- Identity representations within Israeli society: a kaleidoscope of minority phenomena / Emda Orr -- Social representations and the politically satirical cartoon: the construction and reproduction of the refugee and asylum-seeker identity / Gail Moloney -- A narrative theory of history and identity: social identity, social representations, society, and the individual / James H. Liu and Jos Lzl-- Representing'us' and'them': constructing white identities in everyday talk / Martha Augoustinos and Damien Riggs --'It's not their fault that they have that colour skin, is it?': young British children and the possibilities for contesting racializing representations / Caroline Howarth -- Conceptions and misconceptions: social representations of medically assisted reproduction / Iain Walker, Pia Broderick, and Helen Correia -- Inviolable versus alterable identities: culture, biotechnology, and resistance / Nicole Kronberger and Wolfgang Wagner -- Identity, self-control, and risk / He Joffe -- Social identities and social representations: how are they related? / Ivana Markov

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Group identity.
Intergroup relations.
Social psychology.
Social perception.
Collective behavior.