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Contested spaces: citizenship and belonging in contemporary times/ edited by Meenakshi Thapan

Contributor(s): Thapan, Meenakshi, edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi: Orient Blackswan, 2010Description: viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 9788125040927Subject(s): National characteristics | Exceptionalism | Ethnopsychology | Gender identityDDC classification: 323.6

Contents:

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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General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	323.6 THA/C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P41572

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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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