Do I Belong?

Reflections from Europe

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

*Shortlisted for the JQ Wingate Literary Prize, 2017* 'Belonging' is both a fundamental human emotion and a political project that affects millions. Since its foundation in 1957, the European Union has encouraged people across its member states to feel a sense of belonging to one united community, with mixed results. Today, faced with the fracturing impacts of the migration crisis, the threat of terrorism and rising tensions within countries, governments within and outside the EU seek to impose a different kind of belonging on their populations through policies of exclusion and bordering. In this collection of original essays, a diverse group of novelists, journalists and academics reflect on their own individual senses of European belonging. In creative and disarming ways, they confront the challenges of nationalism, populism, racism and fundamentalism.Do I Belong? offers fascinating insights into such questions as: Why fear growing diversity? Is there a European identity? Who determines who belongs? Is a single sense of 'good' belonging in Europe dangerous? This collection provides a unique commentary on an insufficiently understood but defining phenomenon of our age.Authors include: Zia Haider Rahman, Goran Rosenberg, Isolde Charim, Hanno Loewy, Diana Pinto, Nira Yuval-Davis and Doron Rabinovici among others.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 23 mm
Vikt:402 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745399942
Utmärkelser:Long-listed for JQ Wingate Literary Prize 2017 (UK)

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Antony Lerman is Senior Fellow at the Bruno Kreisky Forum for International Dialogue in Vienna and Honorary Fellow of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at Southampton University. He is the author of The Making and Unmaking of a Zionist: A Personal and Political Journey (Pluto, 2012) and editor of Do I Belong? (Pluto, 2017).

Recensioner i media

'In today's world, no task is more crucial than the harmonious management of diversity. And none is more arduous. Whoever hopes to address that issue efficiently needs to listen to voices coming from all over the world and from all walks of life. Like the voices gathered in this book'

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword by Gertraud Borea d'OlmoIntroduction by Antony Lerman1. Europe’s Problem with Otherness - Zia Haider Rahman2. When Do You Eat Lunch? - Isolde Charim3. The Missing Link? Building Solidarity Among Black Europeans - Rob Berkeley4. From the European Puzzle to a Puzzled Europe - Marion Demossier5. The Bird’s Religion - eyda Emek6. The Constructed European - Catherine Fieschi7. Guilty Pleasure - Lars Ebert8. A World of Difference - Brian Klug9. A Never-Ending Story: My Belonging Journey - Viola Raheb10. The Paris 2015 Attacks and the Eclipse of Senses of Belonging in Europe - Umut Bozkurt11. Home and Homelessness in Europe - Göran Rosenberg12. The Undiscovered Continent - Doron Rabinovici13. Growing Up Under Different Skies - Diana Pinto14. The Profound and Ambivalent Nature of European Belonging - Montserrat Guibernau15. Questioning Belonging in the Post-Diasporic Museum - Hanno Loewy16. The Accidental European - Nira Yuval-Davis 17. Belonging to the Contact Zone - Nora Sternfeld18. The Unfinished Business of Our Own Belongings - Antony LermanNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIndex