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Contested spaces: citizenship and belonging in contemporary times/ edited by Meenakshi Thapan - New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010. - viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: The Dynamics of Citizenship Meenakshi Thapan and Valerie Raoul
Exclusionary Practices Perpetuated through State Policies

2. Remembering and Contested Patriotism: Embodied Practices of the Sri Lankan Nation-State
Sasanka Perera

3. Struggles Over 'School Time': Temporal Organisation of Schooling in Nepal and Denmark
Karen Valentin

4. 'Why Do I Not Belong?' The Struggle for Integration across Barriers of Race and Language in a
Canadian School
Meenakshi Thapan Embodiment, Language and the Experience of Identity

5. Citizenship, Immigration, and Embodiment: Vietnamese Americans in North-Central Texas
Deborah Reed-Danahay

6. Folk Art, State Patronage and the Constitution of the Local
Roma Chatterji

7. Frenchness on Trial in Canada: Language, Religion, Race and Gender in Current Debates on Immigration in Quebec
Valerie Raoul
Gender, Identity and the State

8. Globalisation, Embourgeoisement and Violence: Shifting Frames of Masculinity in Sinhala Discourse
Jani de Silva

9. The Politics of Gender Identity amongst Buddhist nuns in Myanmar
Hiroko Kawanami

10. Imperialist Missions: Representing Muslims in the War on Terror
Sunera Thobani

Notes on the Contributors
Index

ISBN: 9788125040927

Subjects--Topical Terms:
National characteristics
Exceptionalism
Ethnopsychology
Gender identity

Dewey Class. No.: 323.6 / THA/C