The politics of identity: place, space and discourse

"In what ways can we think through the complexities of identity? Identity is a contested concept, but it is more than a thing possessed by agents. Identity is contingent and dynamic, constituting and reconstituting subjects with political effects. In this edited book, identity is explored through a range of unique interdisciplinary case studies from around the world. Questions of citizenship, belonging, migration, conflict, security, peace and subjectivity are examined through social construction, post-colonialism, and gendered lenses from an interdisciplinary perspective. This combination showcases in particular the political implications of identity, how it is constituted, and the effects it produces. This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post-colonialism and policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels." --

"In December 2014 IRN organised a workshop, several papers of which appear in this edited collection."--Page xiii.

1. The politics of identity: making and disrupting identity / Christine Agius and Dean Keep -- Part I: Establishing and consolidating identity. 2. Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity / Christopher Mudaliar -- 3. Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging / Katie Linnane -- 4. Gendered identities in peacebuilding: an analysis of post-2006 Timor-Leste / Sarah Smith -- 5. Agents of peace: place, identity and peacebuilding / Gezim Visoka -- Part II: Identity rupture. 6. A space for identity: the case of Lebanon's naturalised Palestinians / Hind Ghandour -- 7. The Romani 'camp-dwellers' in Rome: between state control and 'collective-identity closure' / Riccardo Armillei -- 8. Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland / Louise Pears -- 9. Right(s) from the ground up: internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city / Helen Berents -- Part III: Contesting identity. 10. Sweden, military intervention and the loss of memory / Annika Bergman Rosamond and Christine Agius -- 11. Pollution and purity: caste-based discrimination and the mobilisation of Dalit sameness / Ted Svensson -- 12…