Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contested Identities

Identity Trouble assembles contributions from a variety of discourse fields to discuss the pressures on traditional understandings of identity. The focus is on failures and uncertainties in people's construction of their identities when faced change and the contributors raise critical questions about identity and how it may be reconfigured.

CARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Birmingham, UK where she teaches and researches in the areas of critical discourse, culture and communication, media, gender, narrative, and translation studies. Formerly she was Professor of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. She is the editor (with Malcolm Coulthard) of Texts and Practices and editor (with Michael Toolan) of The Writer's Craft, The Culture's Technology.

RICK IEDEMA is Professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia. He works with a team of researchers on discourse analytical and visual-ethnographic investigations into emerging kinds of hospital organization and professionals' enactments of their expert practices. He is the author of Language and Image, and Discourses of Post-Bureaucratic Organization, and editor of The Discourse of Hospital Communication.