Kentucky Christian University

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The politics of identity

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1020066659

edited by Christine Agius and Dean Keep

place, space and discourse

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

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 rupture6 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