The politics of identity : place, space and discourse / edited by Christine Agius and Dean Keep.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agius, Christine, editor.

Keep, Dean, editor.

Series:

Manchester Political Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity politics.

Group identity--Political aspects.

Group identity.

Identity (Psychology)--Social aspects.

Identity (Psychology).

Group identity--Social aspects.

Citizenship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1. The politics of identity: making and disrupting identity / Christine Agius and Dean Keep

Part I: Establishing and consolidating identity

2. Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity / Christopher Mudaliar

3. Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging / Katie Linnane

4. Gendered identities in peacebuilding: an analysis of post-2006 / Timor-Leste and Sarah Smith

5. Agents of peace: place, identity and peacebuilding / Gezim Visoka

Part II: Identity rupture

6. A space for identity: the case of Lebanon’s naturalised Palestinians / Hind Ghandour

7. The Romani ‘camp-dwellers’ in Rome: between state control and ‘collective-identity closure’ / Riccardo Armillei

8. Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland / Louise Pears

9. Right(s) from the ground up: internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city / Helen Berents

Part III: Contesting identity

10. Sweden, military intervention and the loss of memory / Annika Bergman Rosamond and Christine Agius

11. Pollution and purity: caste-based discrimination and the mobilisation of Dalit sameness / Ted Svensson

12. The queer common: resisting the public at Gezi Park and beyond / Paul Gordon Kramer

13. Positive regard for difference without identity / Lucy Nicholas.

Notes:

Im Buch: "In December 2014 IRN organised a workshop, several papers of which appear in this edited collection.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 8, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526136022

1526136023

9781526110268

1526110261

OCLC:

1020066659