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The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging

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Editors:
  1. Benjamin Maiangwa

    1. Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

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  • Explores ways in which adversarial identities are forged
  • Offers insights into the fears and hopes of people contending with new notions of citizenship
  • Supports practitioners in designing context-specific interventions to forge deracialized political community

Part of the book series: Politics of Citizenship and Migration (POCM)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race, and Belonging

    • Benjamin Maiangwa
    Pages 1-19

  3. On Blackness and Related Subjects: Concluding Conversation

    • Ademola Adesola, Adey Mohamed, Christiane Ndedi Essombe, Benjamin Maiangwa
    Pages 245-264

  4. Identity, Coloniality and Home

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Can We Forgo Our Attachments to Socially Constructed Identities?

      • Sabena Singh
      Pages 23-43

    3. On Names, Labels, and Colonial Amnesia

      • Christiane Ndedi Essombe
      Pages 45-62

    4. The Unresolved Crisis of Belonging in African Literature: A Reflection

      • Chigbo Arthur Anyaduba
      Pages 63-78

    5. Being and Becoming “African” in the Postcolony

      • Benjamin Maiangwa, Christiane Ndedi Essombe
      Pages 79-107

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 265-273
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About this book

This book explores how questions about home and belonging have been framed in the discourses on race, migration, and social relationships. It does this with the aim of envisioning alternative modes of living and reimagining our political communities in ways that question the legacy of colonization and constructed identities which detract from our sense of obligation to each other and the planet. The book questions problematic categories of difference to transform human relations beyond the materialism of our global political economy. Questions addressed in the volume include: In what ways are combative colonial identities of difference manufactured within our national and global spaces of encounter? How can we expel the racialized and tribalized political identities that seek to purify and deny the complexities and sacredness of being human? How do we embrace the notion that everyone we encounter is a mirror reflecting our fears of suffering and our desires for happiness?
The book is set in the context of re-emerging ultra-nationalists and anti-migrant politicians on the national and international stage, advancing various strands of extreme-right and protectionist ideology couched as redemptive-welfarist strategies. The adverse impacts of these strategies seem to be reifying a possessive idea of citizenship and identity, engendering a national fantasy that portrays communities as homogenous entities inhabiting enclosed borders. This is essentially a compendium of conversations across the intersection of the racial, national, ethnic, spiritual, and sexual boundaries in which we live.


Reviews

A rich and reflective collection. Foregrounding diasporic and multinational identities, expressions of home and belongingness, The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging acknowledges and challenges post/colonial projects of displacement and division. Maiangwa and his contributors weave together personal narrative, lived experience, interdisciplinary research and resistance. This exemplifies and will inspire a humane and spiritual scholarship of difference of the very sort we need, nurturing connectedness and knowledge bridging. - Gillian Anderson (Professor of Sociology, Vancouver Island University)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada

    Benjamin Maiangwa

About the editor

Benjamin Maiangwa is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Prior to joining Lakehead University, he was Teaching Fellow in International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA), Durham University, UK. He was also instructor at the University of Manitoba and the Manitoba Institute of Trades and Technology (MITT). Maiangwa's research focuses broadly on the intersection of politics, culture, and society. His publications and outreach activities use storytelling, action research, and critical ethnography to explore notions of contested belonging, home, mobility, and people's experiences of conflict and peace. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Paradox(es) of Diasporic Identity, Race and Belonging

  • Editors: Benjamin Maiangwa

  • Series Title: Politics of Citizenship and Migration

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38797-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38796-8Published: 23 October 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-38799-9Due: 23 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-38797-5Published: 22 October 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2520-8896

  • Series E-ISSN: 2520-890X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 273

  • Topics: Public Policy, Migration

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