A History of Identity: The riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life / Charles Lemert -- Feminism and Identity / Ann Branaman -- Identity After Psychoanalysis / Stephen Frosh -- Foucauldian Approaches to the Self / Gavin Kendall -- The Fragmentation of Idenity: Post-structuralist and Postmodern Theories / Sam Han -- Reflexive Identities / Daniel Chaffee -- Individualization / Cosmo Howard -- New Identities, New Individualism / Eric L. Hsu -- Transformations of Working Identities: Labour and the Self / Daniel Mendelson -- Identity, Race and Ethnicity / Anthony Moran -- Gendered Identities / Mary Holmes -- Media and Identity / Nick Stevenson -- Virtual Identities: From Decentered to Distributed Selves / Sam Han -- Consumer Identities / Roberta Sassatelli -- Identity, Mortality and Death / Tamara Warasschinski and Charles Lemert -- Sexual Identity-politics: Activism From Gay to Queer and Beyond / Mark Casey -- Environmentalism and Identity-politics / Eileen M. McGurty -- Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity / David Stein -- The Politics of Islamic Identities / Sundas Ali -- Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-colonialism / Anthony Moran -- (Anti-)globalization and Resistance Identities / Catherine Eschle -- Identity-politics in the Global Age / Giorgio Shani