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Title The politics of identity : place, space and discourse / edited by Christine Agius and Dean Keep
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018

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Contents 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 LebanonaÌ#x82;#x80;#x99;s naturalised Palestinians7 The Romani aÌ#x82;#x80;camp-dwellersaÌ#x82;#x80;#x99; in Rome: between state control and aÌ#x82;#x80;collective-identity closureaÌ#x82;#x80;#x99;; 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
Summary This book explores identity as contingent, fragmented and dynamic across a range of global sites and approaches that deal with citizenship, security, migration, subjectivity, memory, exclusion and belonging, and space and place. It explores the political and social effects and possibilities of identity practices, discourses and policies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2018)
Subject Identity politics.
Group identity -- Political aspects
Minorities -- Civil rights.
Ethnic groups -- Civil rights
Immigrants -- Civil rights
Cultural pluralism.
Cultural Diversity
Comparative politics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Identity politics
Cultural pluralism
Ethnic groups -- Civil rights
Group identity -- Political aspects
Immigrants -- Civil rights
Minorities -- Civil rights
Kulturvergleich
Politik
Identität
Society & Social Sciences -- Politics & government -- Comparative politics.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Agius, Christine, editor
Keen, Dean, editor
ISBN 9781526136022
1526136023
9781526110268
1526110261