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In this groundbreaking book, Nira Yuval-Davis provides a cutting-edge investigation of the challenging debates around belonging and the politics of belonging. Alongside the hegemonic forms of citizenship and nationalism which have tended to dominate our recent political and social history, the author examines alternative contemporary political projects of belonging constructed around the notions of religion, cosmopolitanism, and the feminist ‘ethics of care’. The book also explores the effects of globalization, mass migration, the rise of both fundamentalist and human rights movements on such politics of belonging, as well as some of its racialized and gendered dimensions. A special space is given to the various feminist political movements that have been engaged as part of or in resistance to the political projects of belonging.
The Caring Question: The Emotional and the Political
The Caring Question: The Emotional and the Political
At the beginning of the introduction to this book, the question was raised about the significance of the surprise and discomfort that many British people felt when they discovered that some of the major participants in the 7/7 terrorist attacks on London transport in 2005 were British citizens who, moreover, were born, raised and educated in Britain.
In the following chapters, various political projects of belonging were presented and discussed which would have helped to answer that question. The naturalization of boundaries of belonging of citizenship, of national, ethnic and religious communities, and as members of the human race, would assume a shared belonging which normatively would make such acts not ...
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