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
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National characteristics Exceptionalism Ethnopsychology Gender identity