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June 2006 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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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, globalization 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

 

Nira Yuval-Davis

Kalpana Kannabiran

Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for... More About Author

Ulrike Vieten

I studied Social Science and Law in Germany, and extended my interdisciplinary and feminist knowledge in a unique British MA program (Gender and Ethnic Studies) with Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis (University of Greenwich, MA/ 2004; University of East London, Ph.D./2008). In 2009, I was offered a Postdoc position based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), the Netherlands. My current research concentrates on the 'Modes of intersectional complexity and "New" Citizen's inclusion in the Netherlands, Britain and Germany since 1970'. More About Author

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