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Daffawi: self-orientalism and identity work among Palestinians in Israel Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Amalia Sa’ar, Shihab Idrees
This ethnographic paper explores attitudes and perceptions of Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) regarding Palestinians from the West Bank (PWB). It focuses on the semantic complex of ḍaffāwi (‘w...
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From disconnection to intersection: making race and religion at the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Juliette Galonnier
This article investigates how the categories of ‘race’ and ‘religion’ are concurrently produced in international arenas. The 1965 International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial ...
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Understanding racial equity in research with Indigenous Peoples: including anti-racism and decolonization approaches Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Heather Sauyaq Jean Gordon, Deana Around Him
Colonization of Indigenous Peoples living in what is now called the U.S. and U.S. territories began over 500 years ago, yet colonization continues today and results in historical trauma and inequit...
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When counter-extremism ‘sticks’: the circulation of the prevent duty in the school space Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Shereen Fernandez
This article contributes to scholarship in Muslim geographies to show how the Prevent Duty is a racializing and securitizing policy, which exists in an already unequal school space. Through the con...
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Contesting the margins of coloniality: Māori adoptee identities in the context of Māori identity scholarship Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Denise Blake
Over the past two decades, understandings of Māori identity have been enriched through emphases on non-binary categorizations, processual ‘becoming’, and flexible ‘routes’ rather than rigid ‘roots’...
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The dread of dread Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 David Theo Goldberg
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Criminalizing black solidarity: Dublin deportations, raids, and racial statecraft in southern Germany Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Aino Korvensyrjä
Intensive police raids targeted southern German asylum camps in 2018. The police accused black men of rioting against deportation enforcement, and local courts prosecuted numerous individuals. This...
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Affective control: the emotional life of (en)forcing mobility control in Europe Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Ioana Vrabiescu, Bridget Anderson
Current outcomes of immigration enforcement policies and apparatuses call for rethinking the ethics behind our understanding of community belonging, human rights and just society. The ethics at wor...
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The emotional governance of immigration controls Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Melanie Griffiths
Emotions produce the borders between the self and other. They are also constitutive of national border practices and politics. This article considers the ‘affective governance’ of the UK’s immigrat...
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Migrants away from the polls: explaining the absenteeism of people with sub-Saharan African origins in the 2022 French presidential elections Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Sergiu Mișcoiu, Bettina Mitru, Sergiu Gherghina
The electoral participation of migrants in the country of residence has been often investigated through the lenses of motivations, preferences, and consequences. The literature to date has paid lit...
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Queering trialectics among space, power, and the subject: spatial representations and practices of othered identities in Turkey Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Ece Yoltay
This article analyzes spatial configurations of biopower in Turkey, in other words, of the politics of ‘supra-identity’. In the multi-identity social structure of the country, the subjectification ...
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Producing whiteness through urban space: the socio-spatial construction of white identities in Amsterdam Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Rozemarijn Weyers
This article argues for an approach to the formation of whiteness that includes an explicit focus on urban neighbourhood spaces. Extending literature that mainly focuses on whiteness at the nationa...
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Storytelling amid the ‘dirty plates’ of the past Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Lawrie Balfour
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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The truth of two cities: Trieste, Rijeka and the interplay between nationalism and cosmopolitanism in cross-border regional Europe Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Christian Lamour
Nationalism structures the representation of identities in museums. However, museums are also places where cosmopolitanism can be circulated. The scope of the current article is to approach the int...
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Feeling excluded? Why ethnic minorities (do not) engage in participatory budgeting Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sergiu Gherghina, Paul Tap, Ionut Traistaru
The increasing use of participatory budgeting (PB) around the world has led to analyses covering people’s attitudes towards the process, its empowering characteristics, and its transformational pot...
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Essentialism and intersectionality in the selection and recruitment of staff: the devaluation of migrant women’s skills in France and Italy Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Anne-Iris Romens, Francesca Alice Vianello
While skilled migration has become one of the most acceptable ways of entering Western European countries, the skills of migrant women with tertiary education continue to be undervalued in labour m...
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Caring for political memory: a response to my critics Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Mihaela Mihai
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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The displacement of the ‘hero elect’ by the ‘caring refusenik’ Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Andrew Schaap
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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Remembering is caring (or: what is complicitous memory?) Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Sakiru Adebayo
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 31, No. 2, 2024)
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“We are here, but our hearts are in Haiti”: temporal and racialized emotive existences of ethnically identified Haitian Americans Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-11-05 Vadricka Y. Etienne
This study argues that three racialized emotive existences – nostalgia, fear, and hope – mark ethnically identified Haitian Americans’ temporal and cultural narratives of Haiti. First, nostalgia hi...
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What sociologists learn from music: identity, music-making, and the sociological imagination Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Les Back
Sociologists very often have extra-curricular lives as musicians. This article explores the relationship between musical life and sociological identities. Through a range of examples from Howard Be...
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Blood, it’s in you to give, just don’t be an African: the Canadian blood system and the African Indefinite Deferral Policy, 1997 to 2018 Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Nseya Mwamba, Korbla P. Puplampu
The Canadian health care system has been the site of a tense relationship between blood donation policies and African Canadians (read as Blacks). This article explores the basis of that strain, spe...
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The unrealised potential of women’s political leadership in the Caribbean: A co-constitutive approach Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Nickesia S. Gordon
Gendered relations of power coupled with socio-cultural structures such as class, continue to limit opportunities for women who aspire to political leadership in the Caribbean. This article argues ...
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Upping the anti: antiracist identity work and its obfuscations Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Stephanie Kelly, F. Richardson
This article aims to synthesize the extant literature that brings sociological analysis to the context, production and perpetuation of the antiracist identity. Our aim is to distinguish this analys...
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British Muslim men and clothes: the role of stigma and the political (re)configurations around sartorial choices Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Fatima Rajina
This article examines the changing perceptions of dress, focusing on the lungi, funjabi and the thobe, amongst the British Bangladeshi Muslim male diaspora in the East End of London. Through variou...
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The construction of Palestinian death as an exceptional repetition in Israel Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Revital Madar
This article delves into a military court’s quest to determine the nature of one Palestinian death by an Israeli soldier as exceptional or banal. The court’s rejection of selective enforcement clai...
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Islamophobia in Scottish towns and small cities Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-10 Reza Bagheri
ABSTRACT Islamophobia, as a form of cultural racism, can take different forms in different contexts. Previous research suggested that there is a perception among some Muslims that anti-Muslim racism is higher in areas where there is a high density of Muslim residents such as Glasgow. In contrast, some others suggest that ethnic minority people are at greater risk of racism in less racially diverse
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Why study racist humour? An invitation to critical humour studies Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Raúl Pérez
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 5, 2023)
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The pleasure in cruelty is the point: reflections on The Souls of White Jokes Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Jessie Daniels
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 5, 2023)
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Dead serious racial humour Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Victor Ray
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 5, 2023)
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Towards a theorization of racist humour and affect Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Simon Weaver
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘Être vraiment vrai’: truth, in/visibility and migration in Morocco Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Sébastien Bachelet, Mariangela Palladino
ABSTRACT This article explores truth demands, politics of in/visibility and migration in Morocco. Based on the participatory research project Arts for Advocacy: Creative Engagement with Forced Displacement in Morocco, we argue that narratives that depart from migrants’ confessional accounts of victimhood and contest truth demands can shift the in/visibility of migrants. Besides contributing to scholarship
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Emirati expats in social media: a new arena for involvement and political expression? Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-06-27 Hamdullah Baycar
Citizens’ online participation has gained momentum from voting to activism. Citizens of the United Arab Emirates actively utilize social media platforms and online sphere to express themselves, des...
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From being othered to promoting the value of otherness: pride and price of intercultural dialogue among migrant immediate descendants in Italy Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Annavittoria Sarli
ABSTRACT Migrant immediate descendants (MIDs) raised in Italy are frequently socialized across different ethno-cultural environments and often experience being othered. Both conditions may influence the way they face intercultural interaction, but this topic remains largely unexplored. Through 15 semi-structured interviews and 5 focus groups with MID university students raised in Italy, this work examines
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Objectivisation and genderisation in news frames about immigration: the Carola Rackete case Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Emiliana De Blasio, Marco Palillo, Donatella Selva
ABSTRACT In June 2019, the captain of the sea-rescue vessel Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete, decided to dock on Lampedusa in spite of the ban promoted by former Minister of Interior, Matteo Salvini. The article underlines the role of newsmaking in politicizing immigration and fuelling three intertwined trends of the post-public sphere: manipulation of the debate, objectification of migrants and genderisation
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Fragile belonging: professional Polish women’s belonging at work Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 William Shankley
Research continues to emerge on the role of Brexit on migrants’ belonging in Britain, and this article contributes to the scholarship in related ways. The article draws on belonging as an analytica...
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Particularity in commonality: sense of ethnic and citizenship identities among minority youth in Vietnam Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-28 Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen
Drawing on interview data, this article examines the sense of ethnic and citizenship identities among a group of young ethnic minorities in Vietnam. Findings suggest that the youth highlighted thei...
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‘Messy refusal’, assimilationist moves, and the reproduction of Eurocentric modernity/coloniality: examining anti-Islamophobia in Lebanon Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Ali Kassem
visibly Muslim women in Lebanon, a small country on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, experience significant anti-Muslim racism. Thinking through their anti-racist work, this article identif...
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Racial experience and knowing the political in liberal democracies Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Gabriel A. Torres Colón
Liberal democracies politicize racist incidents at the expense of institutionalizing antiracist ideologies through party politics. This article is concerned with how racial experience shapes how pe...
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Intercultural sensitivity at work: oral histories of the first-generation Serbian immigrants to multicultural Canada Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Milena Kaličanin, Saša Trenčić
ABSTRACT This article aims to problematize the concept of Canadian multiculturalism from its inception in 1971 to its current tendencies and determine whether this policy is still attainable by referring to significant views of Hall, Taylor, Duchastel, Perin, Clifford, Drache, Hoyos and Kymlicka. These theoretical insights are explored in the case of the Serbian diaspora in Canada. The study is based
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Mass social change and identity hybridization: the case of Qatar and the 2022 FIFA World Cup Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-04-19 Paul Michael Brannagan, Danyel Reiche, Lorraine Bedwell
This paper examines how the 2022 World Cup has transformed national and cultural identity in Qatar, and residents’ responses to such change. Our discussion draws on interviews with Qatari citizens ...
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Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health among African Americans Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Harvey L. Nicholson Jr
ABSTRACT Studies show that racial and ethnic identity can significantly improve mental health and well-being among marginalized ethnoracial groups who experience racism and discrimination. However, the relationships between Pan-African identity, psychological well-being, and mental health have received less attention. Using a national sample of African American adults, I examine whether Pan-African
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Europe and the migrant’s gaze: three approaches to migration in research and film Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Estela Schindel
This article explores questions of positionality in relation to the gaze towards migrants; it is centred on an analysis of three films produced in Europe in the wake of public discussions on migrat...
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The Palestinian-Israeli market: ’feels like somewhere else’ Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Azri Amram
ABSTRACT This article explores the relations between Israel’s Mizrahi Jews (Middle East and North African countries’ descendants) and Palestinian citizens as manifested in the popular open-air market of Kafr Qasim, a Palestinian town in central Israel. The town’s market is a unique space where Jews and Palestinians work, shop, and hang out side by side. This article argues that visitors, vendors, and
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Drifting borders, anchored community: re-reading narratives in the semiotic landscape with ethnic Lithuanians living at the Polish borderland Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Gintarė Kudžmaitė
Everyday lives at the borders have lately been of interest in academic research. Drawing on visual elicitation interviews, this study analyses how ethnic Lithuanians living on the Polish borderland...
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‘I always felt I have something I must do in my life’: meaning making in the political lives of refugee non-citizens Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, Radka Klvaňová, Kateřina Sidiropulu Janků
This article discusses the potential of bringing biographical and cultural sociology together in the analysis of the political lives of refugee non-citizens. Our analysis is based on empirical rese...
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The relation between multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism in UK diversity politics Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Pier-Luc Dupont, Thomas Sealy, Tariq Modood
ABSTRACT This article assesses whether multiculturalism, interculturalism and cosmopolitanism find themselves in tension or, rather, coexist in UK politics. This is done through the analysis of recent policy and civil society documents, complemented with semi-structured interviews with race equality organizations. Results suggest a complementary relationship between these normative perspectives, with
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‘Paperwork or no paperwork, we are guests in this country’: mothering and belonging in the wake of the Windrush Scandal Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Tania Stein, William Shankley
The 2018 Windrush Scandal prompted widespread condemnation of the British government’s treatment of older Caribbean migrants. Yet broader questions pertaining to the effects of the scandal on the w...
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‘My life would have been happier in Germany’: Korean guestworker nurses’ journeys to Germany and to the US Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Helen Kim
This article highlights the little-known experiences and memories of Korean ‘guestworker’ nurses who ‘twice migrated’; first moving to Germany and then migrating to the US in the 1960s and 1970s. B...
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Feeling race: mapping emotions in policing Britain’s borders Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-02-28 Alpa Parmar
Collaboration between the police and immigration has expanded in Britain, following implementation of renewed legislative and policy imperatives to ensure swifter removal and deportation of foreign...
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Turbaned Northern Thai-ness: selective transnationalism, situational ethnicity and local cultural intimacy among Chiang Mai Punjabis Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Arratee Ayuttacorn, Jane M. Ferguson, Ariya Svetamra, Yos Santasombat, Kian Cheng Lee
Chiang Mai is home to approximately 400 diasporic Punjabis, some of whom are sixth-generation residents of Thailand. While their transnational orientation, distinct sartorial choices and cultural p...
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Ambivalent feelings: ‘filotimo’ in the Greek migration regime Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-01-26 Katerina Rozakou
This article explores the ambivalent feelings that police officers demonstrate in their encounters with migrants at migration governance sites in Greece. Police officers are notorious for their ant...
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The vulnerability of in-between statuses: ID and migration controls in the cases of the ‘Windrush generation’ scandal and Brexit Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Djordje Sredanovic
ABSTRACT In this article, I argue that identity documents (ID) and migration statuses are both tools of population control and subjectivities that individuals have an interest in holding. I use documentary analyses and interviews with 31 EU27 citizens in the UK, 21 UK citizens in Belgium and the UK and with nationality bureaucracies in the two countries. States create legitimate, illegitimate and in-between
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Displacement at seascapes: Senegalese fishermen in between state power and foreign fleets Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Fazila Bhimji, Allwell Uwazuruike, Mamadou Ba
ABSTRACT Through semi-structured interviews with Senegalese fishermen, this article examines their displacement following the depletion of fishing stocks in Senegalese waters owing to the activities of European and Asian industrial fleets over the last two decades. While there has been some recognition in scholarship that extractivism leads to dire precarity and displacement within local populations
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‘Back in order’: the role of gatekeepers in erecting internal borders in Barcelona Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Corina Tulbure
Designed and implemented by public servants and NGO workers, local inclusion programmes in Barcelona result in the exclusion of illegalized migrants. Access to city provisions is gained by means of...
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‘Detention is morally exhausting’: melancholia of detention centres in France Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Ioana Vrabiescu
How are ethics articulated in the organization of migrants’ detention in France? While state agents enjoy discretionary power, it is the third sector that claims legal knowledge and good practice,...
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‘BANISH THOSE OTHER BORDERS’: reframing concepts, coalescing (trans)feminisms Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Anna Carastathis
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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What’s the difference? Theorizing belongings, relationalities and capitalism Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Nina Glick Schiller
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Restorying complex intersections in everyday practices of space, place and belonging Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-24 Ann Phoenix
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)
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Translocationality, difference, capitalism: a response Identities (IF 1.583) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Floya Anthias
Published in Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2023)