Nira Yuval-Davis & Kalpana Kannabiran 
The Situated Politics of Belonging [PDF ebook] 

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.

Table of Content

Introduction – Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike M Vieten

PART ONE MULTICULTURALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING

Belongings in a Globalising and Unequal World – Floya Anthias

Rethinking Translocations

Culture, Identity and Rights – Gurminder K Bhambra

Challenging Contemporary Discourses of Belonging

Domestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling – Mica Nava

The Specifity of London

A Cartography of Resistance – Kalpana Kannabiran

The National Federation of Dalit Women

PART TWO: RACISMS, SEXISMS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING

Im/Possible Inhabitations – Nirmal Puwar

An Inhospitable Port in the Storm – Jayne O Ifekwunigwe

Recent Clandestine West African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic Recognition

Alterity and Belonging in Diaspora Space – Alice Feldman

Changing Irish Identities and `Race′-Making in the `Age of Migration′

Recognition, Respect and Rights – Louise Humpage and Greg Marston

Refugee Living on Temporary Protection Visas (TPVx) in Australia

Gender and Caste Conflicts in Rural Bihar – Suruchi Thapar-Björkert

Dalit Women As Arm Bearers

PART THREE HUMAN RIGHTS, MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGING

The Judgement of Evil and Contemporary Politics of Belonging – Robert Fine

National Interests, National Identity and `Ethical Foreign Policy′ – David Chandler

Australians in Guantanamo Bay – Zlatko Skrbiš

Graduations of Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging

The Enemy of My Enemy is Not my Friend – Nadje Al-Ali

Women′s Rights, Occupation and `Reconstruction′ in Iraq

Legislating Utopia? Violence against Women – Gita Sahgal

Identities and Interventions

About the author

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′.