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(En)gendering the Political: Citizenship from marginal spaces book cover

1st Edition

(En)gendering the Political Citizenship from marginal spaces

Edited By Joe B. Turner Copyright 2017
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge
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What is the relationship between being political and citizenship? What might it mean to be marginalised through both the practices and knowledge of citizenship? What might citizenship look like from a position of social, political and cultural exclusion? This book responds to these questions by treating marginalisation as a political process and position. It explores how different lives,... Read more

1. Introduction: (En)gendering the political: Citizenship from marginal spaces Joe Turner

2. Unfamiliar acts of citizenship: enacting citizenship in vernacular music and language from the space of marginalised intergenerational migration Aoileann Ní Mhurchú

3. Contestations in death – the role of grief in migration struggles Maurice Stierl

4. Troubling the exclusive privileges of citizenship: mobile solidarities, asylum seekers, and the right to work Lucy Mayblin

5. Governing the domestic space of the traveller in the UK: ‘family’, ‘home’ and the struggle over Dale Farm Joe Turner

6. Between safety and vulnerability: the exiled other of international relations Amanda Russell Beattie

7. Ethiopianism, Englishness, Britishness: struggles over imperial belonging Robbie Shilliam

8. Beyond the nation state: the role of local and pan-national identities in defining post-colonial African citizenship Gemma Bird

Biography

Joe B. Turner is a Research Fellow in International Migration in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is interested in the politics of citizenship and how internal/external borders emerge and are governed in (post)colonial states such as the UK. His work lies at the cross-section of IR, political sociology and historiography. Joe has previously published work in journals such as British Journal of Politics and International Relations and Citizenship Studies.

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