Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies
Sexuality, Immigration, Citizenship
Authors: Yörükoğlu, Ilgın
Free Preview- Asks how individuals with multiple identities and conflicting worlds of meaning "belong" in a world of complexity
- Challenges our understanding of belonging, integration, social cohesion and citizenship, through a case study of people with multiple identities
- Speaks to those interested in: criminology, sociology, social psychology, urban studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, queer studies and political science
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- About this book
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This book examines the ways in which the need to belong manifests itself in the post 9/11 world, from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Using queer Turkish women in Berlin as its subjects, the book shows how individuals with seemingly contradictory belongings develop strategies of emotional survival in the face of conflict, which Yorukoglu terms “acts of belonging”. It studies the impact of populist discourses on minorities, exploring concepts such as security, integration, sexual tolerance and cohesion within a causal relationship. Questioning this assumed relationship, the book proposes an alternative approach to study belonging. Acts Of Belonging in Modern Societies supports the empirical research behind the argument that cohesion is not a "sine qua non" of belonging. These acts allow the individual to claim belonging in spite of possible differences. The book provides evocative case studies to reveal the affective, dynamic, complex nature of human connectedness.
- About the authors
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Ilgin Yorukoglu is Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Criminal Justice Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, US.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction: A Framework to Study Belonging
Pages 1-25
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We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security
Pages 27-51
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Belonging, Somehow: Communities of Difference
Pages 53-68
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Fahriye’s Multiculturalism: Ethnicity, Trust, Claim-Making
Pages 69-81
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“Fatma Can Go Anywhere”: Religious Identification and Redefining One’s Self
Pages 83-100
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies
- Book Subtitle
- Sexuality, Immigration, Citizenship
- Authors
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- Ilgın Yörükoğlu
- Series Title
- Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-45172-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-45171-4
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 138
- Number of Illustrations
- 1 b/w illustrations
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