Identity, Ethnic Diversity and Community Cohesion

Margaret Wetherell is Professor of Social Psychology at the Open University, UK and Director of the Economic and Social Research Council Programme on Identities and Social Action. Rob Berkeley has been Director of the Runnymede since January 2009. He was Deputy Director between 2005 and 2009. His doctoral studies focused on exclusion from school. He has been Chair of governors at a South London primary school, Chair of Naz Project London (which provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to various minority ethnic communities), and a Trustee of Stonewall, and the Equality and Diversity Forum, and a member of the Commission on 2020 Public Services.

Community Cohesion and Identity Dynamics: Dilemmas and Challenges - Margaret Wetherell POLICY STANDPOINTS: AGENCIES AND UTTERANCES The Case for Progressive Solidarity - Henry Tam Building an Integrated Society - Nick Johnson Identity Formation and Change in British Muslim Communities - Dilwar Hussain Policy, Identity and Community Cohesion: How Race Equality Fits - Omar Khan IDENTITIES IN COMMUNITY CONTEXTS: FOUR CASE STUDIES Welcome to 'Monkey Island': Identity and Community in Three Norwich Estates - Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor Ethnicity, Identity and Community Cohesion in Prison - Coretta Phillips Home, Identity and Community Cohesion - Simon Clarke, Rosie Gilmour and Steve Garner Prejudice, Intergroup Contact and Identity: Do Neighbourhoods Matter? - Miles Hewstone, Nicole Tausch, Joanne Hughes and Ed Cairns REFLECTIONS AND THE WAY AHEAD: TOWARDS NEW DIALOGUES Cohesive Identities: The Distance between Meaning and Understanding - Claire Alexander Acknowledged Identities: a Common Endeavour or Wider Hostilities? - Kate Gavron Reasoned Identities: a Committed Relationship - Bhikhu Parekh Non-binarized Identities of Similarity and Difference - Avtar Brah