Language of Belonging

ULRIKE HANNA MEINHOF is Professor of German and Cultural Studies at the University of Southampton, UK and a specialist in discourse analysis. She is co-ordinator of two EU Fifth Framework research projects, one on 'European border identities' (www.borderidentities.com) and another on 'Changing City Spaces' (www.citynexus.com) which deals with issues of cultural diversity and migration in seven capital cities in Europe. She is the author or editor of many books. DARIUSZ GALASINSKI is Professor of Discourse and Cultural Studies in the University of Wolverhampton, UK and Visiting Professor

' this book is highly topical at a time when, in Europe and the world in general, questions of identity and belonging offer significant challenges to society. The choice of the study sites here, combined with the personal identities of the two researchers, has yielded an original study that highlights the unique insight to be achieved in research on identity, through the discourse analytic approach.' Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University writing in BAAL News

• Lits of Illustrations Acknowledgements Maps Setting the Context The Language of Belonging The Grammar of Identity Stories of Belonging and Identification Photography and the Discourses of Memory and Identification The Voices of Neighbourhood Frames of Belonging: Crossing Local, National and Transnational Spaces Notes Bibliography Index