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.

MAITE ESCUDERO ALÍAS University of Zaragoza, SpainAMÉLIA MARIA FERNANDES ALVES Embassy of Brazil in Caracas, VenezuelaSUSAN AINSWORTH University of Sydney, AustraliaJEFFREY BRAITHWAITE University of New South Wales, AustraliaCARMEN ROSA CALDAS-COULTHARD University of Birmingham, UKMALCOLM COULTHARD, University of Aston, Birmingam, UKMARIA TEREZA LOPES DANTAS Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, BrazilDAVID GRANT University of Sydney, AustraliaRICK IEDEMA University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaMICHAL KRZYZANOWSKI Lancaster University, UKBONSAN BONNE LEE Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, AustraliaJAY L. LEMKE University of Michigan, USASIRPA LEPPÄNEN University of Jyväskylä, FinlandDEBBI LONG University of New South Wales. AustraliaDAVID MACHIN University of Leicester, UKPAUL McILVENY University of Aalborg, DenmarkPIRKKO RAUDASKOSKI University of Aalborg, DenmarkBRANCA TELLES RIBEIRO Lesley University, Boston, USACARL RHODES University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaHERMINE SCHEERES University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaTHEO VAN LEEUWEN University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaRUTH WODAK University of Lancaster, UKSTANTON WORTHAM University of Pennsylvania, USA

Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction; R.Iedema& C.R.Caldas-Coulthard PART 1: DOING IDENTITY ANALYSIS: ARTICULATION, CHALLENGE, RESISTANCE IN THE NARRATION OF THE PUBLIC AND OF THE SELF Identity, Development and Desire: Critical Questions; J.L.Lemke Branding the Self; T.van Leeuwen& S.Machin Identity Knots and Kinship Troubles; P.McIlveny& P.Raudaskoski When (Non) Anglo-Saxon Queers Speak a Queer Language: Homogeneous Identities or Disenfranchised Bodies?; M.Escudero Alías Multiple Identities, Migration and Belonging:' Voices of Migrants'; M.Krzyzanowski& R.Wodak Mongrel Selves: Narratives of Displacement and Multi-positioning; C.R.Caldas-Coulthard& A.M.Fernandes Alves By Their Words Shall Ye Know Them: On Linguistic Identity; M.Coulthard Writing (Trans)local Gender in Fan Fiction; S.Leppänen "I'm Good", "I'm Beautiful", "I'm Nice": Idealization and Contradiction in Female Psychiatric Patients' Discourse; B.Telles Ribeiro& M.T.Lopes Dantas PART 2: NEW WAYS OF UNDERSTANDING IDENTITY/ IDENTITIES IN PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS The Interdependence of Social Identification and Cognition in Classroom Discourse; S.Wortham Triple Trouble: Undecidability, Identity and Organizational Change; C.Rhodes, H.Scheeres& R.Iedema Attempting Clinical Democracy: Enhancing Multivocality in a Multidiciplinary Clinical Team; D.Long, B.Bonne Lee& J.Braithwaite The Contemporary 'Clinician-Manager': Entrepreneurializing Middle Management; R.Iedema, S.Ainsworth& D.Grant Index