The Politics of Identity
Place, Space and Discourse
1st Edition
Published on 17. January 2018
264 pages
978-1-5261-1026-8 (ISBN)
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Description
In what ways can we think through the complexities of identity? Identity is a contested concept, but it is more than a thing possessed by agents. Identity is contingent and dynamic, constituting and reconstituting subjects with political effects. In this edited book, identity is explored through a range of unique interdisciplinary case studies from around the world. Questions of citizenship, belonging, migration, conflict, security, peace and subjectivity are examined through social construction, post-colonialism, and gendered lenses from an interdisciplinary perspective. This combination showcases in particular the political implications of identity, how it is constituted, and the effects it produces.
This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. -- .
This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-1026-8 (9781526110268)
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Book
01/2018
Manchester University Press
€134.80
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Persons
Christine Agius is Lecturer in International Relations and Politics at the University of Salford
Content
- Cover
- The politics of identity
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- 1 The politics of identity: making and disrupting identity
- Part I Establishing and consolidating identity
- 2 Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity
- 3 Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging
- 4 Gendered identities in peacebuilding: an analysis of post-2006 Timor-Leste
- 5 Agents of peace: place, identity and peacebuilding
- Part II Identity rupture
- 6 A space for identity: the case of Lebanon's naturalised Palestinians
- 7 The Romani 'camp-dwellers' in Rome: between state control and 'collective-identity closure'
- 8 Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland
- 9 Right(s) from the ground up: internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city
- Part III Contesting identity
- 10 Sweden, military intervention and the loss of memory
- 11 Pollution and purity: caste-based discrimination and the mobilisation of Dalit sameness
- 12 The queer common: resisting the public at Gezi Park and beyond
- 13 Positive regard for difference without identity
- Index
