Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity (FEMCIT)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies
Book Subtitle: Sexuality, Immigration, Citizenship
Authors: Ilgın Yörükoğlu
Series Title: Citizenship, Gender and Diversity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45172-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-45171-4Published: 02 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-45172-1Published: 01 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2947-8081
Series E-ISSN: 2947-809X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 138
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Critical Criminology, Migration, Sociology of Culture, Personality and Social Psychology, Crime Control and Security