1st Edition

Mapping Changing Identities New Directions in Uncertain Times

Edited By Claire Alexander, Raminder Kaur, Brett St Louis Copyright 2014
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

Issues of identity, culture and difference remain central to the politics, policies and encounters of global societies in the 21 st century. Changes in the speed, scale, scope and form of international and internal migration, new and resurgent religious and ethnic solidarities, the emergence of ‘new’ multicultural societies, and the fusions and fissures of ‘old’ multicultural societies, have... Read more

Introduction Claire Alexander, Raminder Kaur and Brett St Louis

1. ‘My Britain is fuck all’ zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship Paul Gilroy

2. Seeing through multicultural perspectives Nikos Papastergiadis

3. To stop tip-toeing around race: what Arizona’s battle against ethnic studies can teach academics Arlene Davila

4. The debate about multicultural Norway before and after 22 July 2011 Mette Andersson

5. From structured invisibility to visibility: is Japan really going to accept multiethnic, multicultural identities? Beverley Anne Yamamoto

6. Occupier/occupied Kamala Visweswaran

7. The transnational potentiality of transverse politics Raminder Kaur

8. Intersecting identities and global climate change Joane Nagel

9. Elite identities Shamus Rahman Khan

10. The ‘trouble’ with the ‘white working class’: whiteness, class and ‘groupism’ James Rhodes

11. What’s wrong with migration scholarship? A critique and a way forward Peggy Levitt

12. The ruptures and raptures of mobility Vered Amit

13. Nigerian London and British Hong Kong: rethinking migration, ethnicity and urban space through journeys Caroline Knowles

14. Situating Identities: towards an identities studies without binaries of difference Nina Glick Schiller

15. For Aïsha: on identity as potentiality Mats Trondman, Rehan Taha and Anna Lund

16. The structure of afterthought John Lie

Biography

Claire Alexander is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and Editor of Identities: Global Studies of Culture and Power.

Raminder Kaur is Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies at University of Sussex, UK, and Associate Editor of Identities: Global Studies of Culture and Power.

Brett St Louis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and Associate Editor of Identities: Global Studies of Culture and Power.