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This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance and fracture are produced and reproduced. Questions of ‘difference’ are tackled from a perspective that attends to the complexities of history and politics. Drawing on sociology, philosophy and anthropology, this collection brings together leading commentators, including Judith Butler, Paul Gilroy and Arjun Appadurai, as well as a range of new scholars. It examines questions of visuality, political affiliation, ethics, mimesis, spatiality, passing, and diversity in modes of embodied difference.
Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction
Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction
Just as Western philosophy has been unable to shake itself free of the question of Being, so sociology, with its shorter history, has retained its initial preoccupation with the dual questions of social stratification and social reproduction. The beauty of the term ‘belonging’ is that it affords those of us who were never sure which discipline we were meant to reside within, the opportunity to address both philosophical and sociological concerns. The term enables an escape from the long shadow cast by Heideggerian formulations without completely losing philosophical questions in the consideration of identity. The concern with dwelling in the world can take a more Foucauldian turn as part of the question: what makes us who ...
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