This collection brings together leading scholars to explore the 'doing' and 'making' of identities. Drawing on the highly innovative ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, the chapters take core social actions such as performing, excluding, mixing, bonding and demonstrate how social practices and identities unfold together.

CHARLES ANTAKI is Professor of Language and Social Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UK RUPERT BROWN is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sussex, UKMARTIN BRUDER is Postdoctoral Fellow at Cardiff University, UKDOMINIC BRYAN is Lecturer in Social Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University Belfast, UKED CAIRNS is Professor of Psychology at the University of Ulster, UKSEAN CONNOLLY is Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast, UKDEREK EDWARDS is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UKHEATHER ELLIOTT is a freelance researcher and writerMICK FINLAY is Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Surrey University, UKYASMIN GUNARATNAM is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKMILES HEWSTONE is Professor of Social Psychology and Fellow of New College, University of Oxford, UKWENDY HOLLWAY is Professor in Psychology at the Open University, UKJOANNE HUGHES is Professor of Education at Queen's University Belfast, UKSTEVE JEFFERYS is Director of the Working Lives Research Institute and Professor of European Employment Studies at London Metropolitan University, UKRICHARD JENKINS is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UKGARETH JONES is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Environment at London School of Economics,UKERENE KAPTANI is Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the University of East London, UKJOHN KIRK is Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKANDREW LIVINGSTONE is Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University, UKANTONY MANSTEAD is Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University, UKJANE MARTIN is Professor of Social History of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UKANN PHOENIX is Professor and Co-Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, UK ADAM RUTLAND is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Kent, UKRUSSELL SPEARS is Professor of Psychology at Cardiff University, UKSUSAN A. SPEER is Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Manchester, UKELIZABETH STOKOE is Reader in Social Interaction in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UKSARAH THOMAS-DE-BENITEZ is a Consultant and Associate of the LSE's Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, UKCHRISTINE WALL is Senior Research Fellow at the Working Lives Research Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKCHRIS WALTON is Lecturer in Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, UKCHARLES WATTERS is Director of the European Centre for the Study of Migration and Social Care, and Senior Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of Kent, UKMARGARET WETHERELL is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University and Director of the ESRC Identities and Social Action Programme, UKJANE WILLS is Professor of Geography and Director of The City Centre at Queen Mary, University of London, UKNIRA YUVAL DAVIS is Professor and Graduate Course Director in Gender, Sexualities and Ethnic Studies at the University of East London, UK

Introduction: The Identity/Action Relation;  M.Wetherell PART I: BIOGRAPHIES AND PERSONAL TRAJECTORIES Practices, Identification and Identity Change in the Transition to Motherhood;  H.Elliott, Y.Gunaratnam, W.Hollway& A.Phoenix Biography, Education and Civic Action: Teaching Generations and Social Change; J.Martin with J.Kirk, C.Wall& S.Jefferys Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre Among Refugees;  N.Yuval-Davis& E.Kaptani Tales of Two or Many Worlds? When 'Street' Kids go Global;  G.Jones& S.T.De Benitez PART II: INTERATCIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Accomplishing Social Action with Identity Categories: Mediating and Policing Neighbour Disputes;  E.Stokoe& D.Edwards Passing as a Transsexual Woman in the Gender Identity Clinic;  S. Speer Identity at Home: Offering Everyday Choices to People with Intellectual Impairment;  C.Antaki, M.Finlay& C.Walton PART III: COMMUNITIES, CITIES AND NATIONS Identity Making for Action: The Example of London Citizens;  J.Wills Residential Segregation and Intergroup Contact: Consequences for Intergroup Relations, Social Capital and Social Identity; K.Schmid, M. Hewstone, J.Hughes, R.Jenkins& E.Cairns Crossing Thresholds: Acculturation and Social Capital in British Asian Children;  C.Watters, R.Hossain, R.Brown& A.Rutland Identity, Social Action and Public Space: Defining Civic Space in Belfast;  S.Connolly& D.Bryan Defining Common Goals without Speaking the Same Language: Social Identity and Social Action in Wales;  A.Livingstone, R.Spears, A.Manstead& M.Bruder