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