Barefoot in Britain - yet again

On multiple identities, intersection(ality) and marginality

Bibliographic Data

ID3563223
AuthorsP Werbner (0000-0003-2296-9851, Keele University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume65
Issue1_suppl
Pages4-12
Publication date2017-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0081176917693535
OpenAlexW2600122086
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

Anticipating later debates on multiculturalism and class 'fractions', anthropologists in Britain have recognised that migrants and diasporas bear multiple identities, meaning that their cultures cannot and should not be essentialised as homogeneous. For anthropologists, the importance of studying these groups' multiple identities lies in the recognition that none of the social unities evoked - of identity, diaspora, community, nation, tradition - are consensus-based wholes; all are the products of ongoing debates and political struggles or alliances. This article argues that while multiple identities and intersectionality appear to be linked, in the sense that both concern matters of identity and identity politics, they differ radically. In this respect anthropologists of Britain have differed from sociologists and political scientists in arguing, first, for an understanding that identities can be empowering, valorised and deeply affective, and second, that identities are performed in situ - they are situational, shifting, self-defining and culturally embedded

Archaeology · Barefoot · Geography · Intersection (aeronautics) · Sociology · Transport engineering · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Romani and Gypsy Studies

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