Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social

ISBN-13: 9781138709782 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 152 str.

David Bissell; Miranda Bruce; Helen Keane

Opis

The book critically explores the concept of belonging and how it can respond to contemporary problems in not only the traditional domains of citizenship and migration, but also in detention practices, queer and feminist politics, Australian literature and fashion, technology, housing, and rituals.

Spis treści

Belonging Unbound  Part I: Toils  1. Naming Belonging: When National Vocabularies Fail  2. ‘Their Time and Their Story’: Inscribing Belonging Through Life Narratives and Role Expectations in Wedding Videography  3. Academics Anonymous: Blogging and Feminist ‘Be/longings’ in the Neoliberal University  Part II: Intensities  4. Transforming Belongings in Guantanamo Bay  5. Belonging in the Future?  6. Costumes of Belonging: ‘Fitting in’ circus fabrics in the novels The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey and The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott, and the costume-cum-body art of Leigh Bowery  Part III: Promises  7. Beyond Human (Un)Belonging: Intimacies and the Impersonal in Black Mirror  8. Belonging, Place and Identity in the 21st Century  9. Femininity isn't Femme: Appearance and the Contradictory Space of Queer Femme Belonging