Summary
Contents
Subject index
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.
Concluding Remarks
Concluding Remarks
In the introductory chapter of the book we differentiated between belonging and the politics of belonging. Belonging has been described as a mode of relational state of emotion and mind which many psychologists have pointed out as being critical to people's emotional balance and well-being, while sociologists and political theory scholars have focused on the analytical and normative different criteria in which different modes and boundaries of belonging are being constructed in different public, formal and informal, discourses.
However, it was also pointed out that, crucially, people cannot be simply defined, in most situations, as either belonging or not belonging. Emotions – from feeling comfortable, safe or entitled to various rights and resources – are endemic to belonging, but different people who belong ...
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