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The Situated Politics of Belonging
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The Situated Politics of Belonging

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June 2006 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
This collection of essays examines the racialized and gendered effects of contemporary politics of belonging, issues which lie at the heart of contemporary political and social lives. It encompasses critical questions of identity and citizenship, inclusion and exclusion, emotional attachments, violent conflicts and local/global relationships. The range - geographically, thematically and theoretically - covered by the chapters reflects current concerns in the world today. A timely contribution to the ongoing debates in the field, it will be a valuable companion to scholars working in the areas of multiculturalism, globalisation and culture, race and ethnic studies, gender studies and studies of post-partition societies.
Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike M Vieten
Introduction
 
PART ONE MULTICULTURALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING
Floya Anthias
Belongings in a Globalising and Unequal World
Rethinking Translocations

 
Gurminder K Bhambra
Culture, Identity and Rights
Challenging Contemporary Discourses of Belonging

 
Mica Nava
Domestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling
The Specifity of London

 
Kalpana Kannabiran
A Cartography of Resistance
The National Federation of Dalit Women

 
 
PART TWO: RACISMS, SEXISMS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING
Nirmal Puwar
Im/Possible Inhabitations
Jayne O Ifekwunigwe
An Inhospitable Port in the Storm
Recent Clandestine West African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic Recognition

 
Alice Feldman
Alterity and Belonging in Diaspora Space
Changing Irish Identities and `Race'-Making in the `Age of Migration'

 
Louise Humpage and Greg Marston
Recognition, Respect and Rights
Refugee Living on Temporary Protection Visas (TPVx) in Australia

 
Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
Gender and Caste Conflicts in Rural Bihar
Dalit Women As Arm Bearers

 
 
PART THREE HUMAN RIGHTS, MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING
Robert Fine
The Judgement of Evil and Contemporary Politics of Belonging
David Chandler
National Interests, National Identity and `Ethical Foreign Policy'
Zlatko Skrbiš
Australians in Guantanamo Bay
Graduations of Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

 
Nadje Al-Ali
The Enemy of My Enemy is Not my Friend
Women's Rights, Occupation and `Reconstruction' in Iraq

 
Gita Sahgal
Legislating Utopia? Violence against Women
Identities and Interventions

 

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