The politics of identity: Place, space and discourse

by Christine Agius (Editor), Dean Keep (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526110275
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	01/17/2018
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	454 KB

About the Author

Christine Agius is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Dean Keep is Lecturer in Digital Media at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Table of Contents

1. Christine Agius and Dean Keep. 'Making, displacing and disrupting identity: Discourses, culture and politics.'

Part I: Establishing and consolidating identity

1. Hind Ghandour. 'Creating a space for identity: the case of Lebanon's naturalized Palestinians.'

2. Chris Mudaliar. 'Shifting official conceptions of national identity in Fiji.'

3. Katie Linnane. 'Australian Foreign Policy and 'the vernacular of national belonging'.'

4. Christine Agius and Annika Bergman Rosamond. Military intervention and the loss of memory: Sweden, NATO and identity.'

5. Karen Devine. Constructing the European Union's Foreign Policy Identity: A Mid-Term Review

Part II: Identity rupture and displacement

6. Louise Pears. 'Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland.'

7. Helen Berents. 'Marginal(ised) Lives, Excluded Narratives: Internal Displacement and Claims of Belonging in Colombia.'

8. Riccardo Armillei. 'Romanies and the 'nomad camps' in Rome: Between institutional segregation and practices of resistance.'

9. Sarah Smith. 'Gendered identities in peacebuilding.'

Part III: Emergent identities

10. Lucy Nicholas. 'Gender Deconstruction and Group Rights: Intergroup Contact and Recognition without Groups.'

11. Paul Kramer. 'The Queer Common.'

12. G zim Visoka. 'Agents of Peace: Identity, Practice, and Peacebuilding.'

13. M de N Sh illeabhain. 'The Myth of Modern France: Knowing Identity through Stories of Space.'

14. Ted Svensson. 'Pollution and Purity: Caste-Based Discrimination and the Transnational Mobilisation of Dalit Sameness.'