Acts of Belonging in Modern Societies: Sexuality, Immigration, Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9783030451714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 138 str.

Ilgin Yorukoglu

Spis treści

Chapter I Introduction - A Framework to Study Belonging

The aims of the book: What is belonging? How do we belong?

Why study belonging, and what has changed since September 11, 2001?

Why this group of people? Citizenship in Europe after September 11

Terminologies

Theoretical background

The organization of the book

Chapter II-We Have Never Been Coherent: Integration, Sexual Tolerance, Security

Biopolitical immunization

Securing the European way of life

Cohesion, or, the freedom to integrate

Imagining an alternative conception: Acts of belonging

Chapter III- Belonging, Somehow: Communities of Difference

Anxiety and belonging

Acts of belonging: A definition

Belonging and identification

Chapter IV- Fahriye’s Multiculturalism: Ethnicity, Trust, Claim-Making

Chapter V- “Fatma Can Go Anywhere Now”: Religious Identification and Redefining One’s Self

Chapter VI- Seçil and Sefa: Protest As an Act of Belonging

Conclusion

Epilogue

O autorze

Ilgin Yorukoglu is Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Criminal Justice Department at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, US.   

Blurb

This book examines the ways in which the need to belong manifests itself in the post 9/11 world, from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Using queer Turkish women in Berlin as its subjects, the book shows how individuals with seemingly contradictory belongings develop strategies of emotional survival in the face of conflict, which Yorukoglu terms “acts of belonging”. It studies the impact of populist discourses on minorities, exploring concepts such as security, integration, sexual tolerance and cohesion within a causal relationship. Questioning this assumed relationship, the book proposes an alternative approach to study belonging. Acts Of Belonging in Modern Societies supports the empirical research behind the argument that cohesion is not a "sine qua non" of belonging. These acts allow the individual to claim belonging in spite of possible differences. The book provides evocative case studies to reveal the affective, dynamic, complex nature of human connectedness.