Author: Peter Geschiere
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Keywords: africa, europe, exclusion, citizenship, belonging, autochthony, perils
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0226289656
ISBN-13: 9780226289656
Despite being told that we now live in a cosmopolitan world, more and more people have begun to assert their identities in ways that are deeply rooted in the local. These claims of autochthony—meaning “born from the soil”—seek to establish an irrefutable, primordial right to belong and are often employed in politically charged attempts to exclude outsiders. In The Perils of Belonging, Peter Geschiere traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different contexts: Cameroon and the Netherlands. In both
Author: Peter Block
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant
Keywords: structure, belonging, bold, large, easyread, community
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 2009-02-20
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1442964812
ISBN-13: 9781442964815
This book is written to support those who care for the well-being of their community. It is for anyone who wants to be part of creating an organization, neighborhood, city, or country that works for all, and who has the faith and the energy to create such a place. I am one of those people. Whenever I am in a neighborhood or small town and see empty storefronts, watch people floating aimlessly on the sidewalks during school or working hours, pass by housing projects, or read about crime, poverty, or a poor environment in the places where our children and our brothers and sisters live, I am dist
Author: Renato Rosaldo
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: nation, belonging, hinterlands, asia, southeast, citizenship, island, cultural
Number of Pages: 237
Published: 2003-10-09
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520227484
ISBN-13: 9780520227484
Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery--specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysia--to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities. Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists, these essays address the question of how the identities of peoples whose lives a
Author: Lisa Rose Mar
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: exclusion, era, canada, chinese, belonging, brokering
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2010-10-13
List price: $99.00
ISBN-10: 0199733139
ISBN-13: 9780199733132
Brokering Belonging traces several generations of Chinese "brokers," ethnic leaders who acted as intermediaries between the Chinese and Anglo worlds of Canada. Before World War II, most Chinese could not vote and many were illegal immigrants, so brokers played informal but necessary roles as representatives to the larger society. Lisa Rose Mar’s study of Chinatown leaders shows how politics helped establish North America’s first major group of illegal immigrants. Drawing on new Chinese language evidence, her dramatic account of political power struggles over representing Chinese C
Author: Joel S. Migdal
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: identities, local, practices, shape, struggle, belonging, states, societies, boundaries
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2004-05-03
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521835666
ISBN-13: 9780521835664
Although state borders remained remarkably stable during the Cold War, states have disappeared, splintered, consolidated, and blended into supra-national communities since 1990. The articles in this volume look at borders in a new way, stressing their impermanence. In particular, the study looks at the tension between the actual borders of states and other virtual boundaries that frame human communities. The contributors include political scientists, sociologists, geographers, and historians who write about the Middle East, Europe, China, North America, and Asia.Book DescriptionDuring the cold
Authors:Myron W. Lustig, Jolene Koester,
Publisher: Allyn & Baco
Keywords: intercultural, competence, belonging, identity, essays, amongus
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-07-21
List price: $89.00
ISBN-10: 0205453538
ISBN-13: 9780205453535
AmongUS presents readings from individuals whose intercultural experiences give insights on how to achieve an effective and fair multicultural society where cultural identities are celebrated and maintained. The essays provide a rich source of materials to teach a broad array of interpersonal, sociological, and psychological concepts that apply to educational, business, and cultural settings. The authors have arranged the book around four themes: Identity, Negotiating Intercultural Competence, Racism and Prejudice, and Belonging to Multiple Cultures.
Author: Georgie Wemyss
Publisher: Arena
Keywords: studies, migration, diaspora, belonging, tolerance, empire, discourse, invisible
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2009-11-28
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754673472
ISBN-13: 9780754673477
This book offers a significant and original contribution to critical race theory. Georgie Wemyss offers an anthropological account of the cultural hegemony of the West through investigations of the central and pivotal constituent of the dominant white discourse of Britishness - the Invisible Empire. She demonstrates how the repetitive burying of British Empire histories of violence in the retelling of Britain’s past works to disguise how power operates in the present, showing how other related elements have been substantially reproduced through time to accommodate the challenges of histo
