The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.

Anthony Elliott is Executive Director of the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia, where he is Research Professor of Sociology and Chancellery Dean of External Engagement. He is Super-Global Professor of Sociology (Visiting) at Keio University, Japan, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at UCD, Ireland. A specialist in the field of identity studies, he is best known for Concepts of the Self, which has been in continuous print for twenty years and across four editions.

PART 1: Theories of Identity 1. The Rise of Identity Studies: An Outline of Some Theoretical Accounts 2. A History of Identity: The Riddle at the Heart of the Mystery of Life 3. Feminism and Identity 4. Identity after Psychoanalysis 5. Foucauldian Approaches to the Self 6. The Fragmentation of Identity: Post-Structuralist and Postmodern Theories 7. Reflexive Identities 8. Individualization 9. Individualism, Identity, and Social Acceleration PART 2: The Analysis of Identity 10. Identity, Race and Ethnicity 11. Gendered Identities 12. Media and Identity 13. Virtual Identities: From Decentered to Distributed Selves 14. Consumer Identities 15. Identity, Mortality and Death 16. Digital Nomads and (Im)Mobile Identities 17. Posthuman Identities PART 3: Identity-Politics and its Consequences 18. Sexual Identity-Politics: Activism from Gay to Queer and Beyond 19. Environmentalism and Identity-Politics 20. Black Freedom Struggles and African American Identity 21. The Politics of Islamic Identities 22. Indigenous Identities: From Colonialism to Post-Colonialism 23. (Anti-)Globalization and Resistance Identities 24. Identity-Politics in the Global Age