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The politics of identity is concerned with exploring identity beyond
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something that an agent ‘possesses’; instead, identity is interrogated as a
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complex and often problematic category in social relations. In an era where
‘identity politics’ are heavily scrutinised, this edited collection turns the
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focus around to the ‘politics of identity’, exploring how identity can be
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constituted, and the ways in which it is created and contested, multiple and
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in which identity can be theorised, and the complexities that emerge in I
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identity practices.
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The book contributes a unique interdisciplinary examination of timely case
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studies from Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. These
case studies explore emerging and problematic identity practices and policies
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that have significant political, social, cultural and economic impact in relation
to gender and sexuality, place and space, belonging and inclusion, migration F
and citizenship, and security and foreign policy. These are explored through a
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range of approaches from international relations, sociology, citizenship studies, D
social psychology, memory studies, narrative theory and assemblage theory,
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with different disciplines and perspectives critically analysing questions of
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power, subjectivity, hierarchy and resistance. The book showcases the political
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implications of identity, how it is constituted, and the effects it produces.
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This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international
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relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post colonialism and
policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
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The politics of identity
The politics of identity
Place, space and discourse
Edited by
CHRISTINE AGIUS AND DEAN KEEP
Manchester University Press
Copyright © Manchester University Press 2018
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Contents
List of contributors page ix
Acknowledgements xiii
List of abbreviations xiv
1 The politics of identity: making and disrupting identity 1
Christine Agius and Dean Keep
Part I Establishing and consolidating identity
2 Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian
national identity 15
Christopher Mudaliar
3 Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging 34
Katie Linnane
4 Gendered identities in peacebuilding: an analysis of post-2006
Timor-Leste 53
Sarah Smith
5 Agents of peace: place, identity and peacebuilding 71
Gëzim Visoka
Part II Identity rupture
6 A space for identity: the case of Lebanon’s naturalised Palestinians 91
Hind Ghandour
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7 The Romani ‘camp-dwellers’ in Rome: between state control and
‘collective-identity closure’ 107
Riccardo Armillei
8 Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland 123
Louise Pears
9 Right(s) from the ground up: internal displacement, the urban
periphery and belonging to the city 141
Helen Berents
Part III Contesting identity
10 Sweden, military intervention and the loss of memory 159
Annika Bergman Rosamond and Christine Agius
11 Pollution and purity: caste-based discrimination and the
mobilisation of Dalit sameness 180
Ted Svensson
12 The queer common: resisting the public at Gezi Park and beyond 199
Paul Gordon Kramer
13 Positive regard for difference without identity 217
Lucy Nicholas
Index 237
Contributors
Christine Agius is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She has held
previous lecturing posts in the UK and completed her PhD at the University
of Manchester. Her research interests include Nordic politics and security,
identity, and critical security studies. Current research interests include
immigration, gender, sovereign bordering practices and drone warfare. She
is the author of The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality: Challenges to
Swedish Identity and Sovereignty (2006, Manchester University Press) and has
published articles in Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue and other
journals. She is the director of the Identity Research Network, which brings
together interdisciplinary research on the theme of identity.
Riccardo Armillei gained his PhD from Swinburne University of Technology
in 2015 and has worked as an Associate Research Fellow for the UNESCO
Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, based in the Alfred Deakin
Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia.
His research interests include Romani/‘Gypsy’ studies, citizenship and
national identity, forced migrations, social justice, cross-cultural theories and
practices. He has published his research in journals such as Genocide Studies
and Prevention: An International Journal, Contemporary Italian Politics and
Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.
Helen Berents is a lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at
Queensland University of Technology. Her research explores representations
of youth in political events and engages with the lived experiences of violence-
affected young people, and she has carried out fieldwork in Colombia and
Guatemala. More broadly, she is interested in questions of how people are
