The Situated Politics of Belonging

Nira Yuval-Davis is Director of the Research Centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at The University of East London. Kalpana Kannabiran is the recipient of the inaugural Amartya Sen Award for Social Scientists, 2012, for her work in Law. She is a sociologist and legal researcher and is currently Director, Council for Social Development, Hyderabad, an autonomous research institute supported by the Indian Council for Social Science Research. She was awarded the VKRV Rao Prize for Social Science Research in the field of Social Aspects of Law by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) in 2003. She was part of the founding faculty of National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law where she taught sociology and law for a decade (1999–2009) and is a founder member of Asmita Resource Centre for Women where she has coordinated research and legal outreach for women. Kannabiran has been the general secretary of the Indian Association for Women’s Studies (1998–2000) and is active in the International Sociological Association. She was a member of the Expert Group on the Equal Opportunity Commission, Government of India (2007–2008) and member of the Expert Group on Legal Education Reform in Kerala, Government of Kerala. She has been an activist in the women’s movement since the late 1970s.I studied Social Science and Law in Germany, and extended my interdisciplinary and feminist knowledge in a unique British MA program (Gender and Ethnic Studies) with Prof. Nira Yuval-Davis (University of Greenwich, MA/ 2004; University of East London, Ph.D./2008). In 2009, I was offered a Postdoc position based at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Free University of Amsterdam), the Netherlands. My current research concentrates on the ′Modes of intersectional complexity and "New" Citizen′s inclusion in the Netherlands, Britain and Germany since 1970′.

• Introduction - Nira Yuval-Davis, Kalpana Kannabiran and Ulrike M VietenPART ONE MULTICULTURALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGINGBelongings in a Globalising and Unequal World - Floya AnthiasRethinking TranslocationsCulture, Identity and Rights - Gurminder K BhambraChallenging Contemporary Discourses of BelongingDomestic Cosmopolitanism and Structures of Feeling - Mica NavaThe Specifity of LondonA Cartography of Resistance - Kalpana KannabiranThe National Federation of Dalit WomenPART TWO: RACISMS, SEXISMS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGINGIm/Possible Inhabitations - Nirmal PuwarAn Inhospitable Port in the Storm - Jayne O IfekwunigweRecent Clandestine West African Migrants and the Quest for Diasporic RecognitionAlterity and Belonging in Diaspora Space - Alice FeldmanChanging Irish Identities and `Race′-Making in the `Age of Migration′Recognition, Respect and Rights - Louise Humpage and Greg MarstonRefugee Living on Temporary Protection Visas (TPVx) in AustraliaGender and Caste Conflicts in Rural Bihar - Suruchi Thapar-BjörkertDalit Women As Arm BearersPART THREE HUMAN RIGHTS, MILITARY INTERVENTIONS AND CONTEMPORARY POLITICS OF BELONGINGThe Judgement of Evil and Contemporary Politics of Belonging - Robert FineNational Interests, National Identity and `Ethical Foreign Policy′ - David ChandlerAustralians in Guantanamo Bay - Zlatko SkrbišGraduations of Citizenship and the Politics of BelongingThe Enemy of My Enemy is Not my Friend - Nadje Al-AliWomen′s Rights, Occupation and `Reconstruction′ in IraqLegislating Utopia? Violence against Women - Gita SahgalIdentities and Interventions