Kathy Davis, Halleh Ghorashi, Peer Smets

Gebundenes Buch

Contested Belonging

Beschreibung

Contributions address the sites, practices, and narratives in which belonging is imagined, enacted and constrained, negotiated and contested. Focussing on three particular dimensions of belonging: belonging as space (neighbourhood, workplace, home), as practice (virtual, physical, cultural), and as biography (life stories, group narratives).

Autor

Kathy Davis is a senior research fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Her most recent book is Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World (2015). Halleh Ghorashi is Full Professor of Diversity and Integration in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is co-editor of Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition: Perspectives from Northern Europe (2009) and Muslim diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging (2010). Peer Smets is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His recent co-edited volumes include Affordable Housing in the Urban Global South: Seeking Sustainable Solutions; Earthscan (2014), and Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective (2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781787432079
• ISBN-10: 1787432076
• Artikelnr.: 50443387