The perils of belonging autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe

Elusive Autochthony -- History and Culture -- Cpmparisons -- Cameroon : Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation -- Nation-Building as an Everyday Reality -- Rituals of Belonging : The Funeral at Home as a Celebration of Autochthony -- Epilogue : Can the Land Lie? Autochthony&#...

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1. Verfasser: Geschiere, Peter (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Chicago u.a. Univ. of Chicago Press 2009
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Zusammenfassung:Elusive Autochthony -- History and Culture -- Cpmparisons -- Cameroon : Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation -- Nation-Building as an Everyday Reality -- Rituals of Belonging : The Funeral at Home as a Celebration of Autochthony -- Epilogue : Can the Land Lie? Autochthony's Uncertainties in Africa and Europe -- Varying Patterns of Nation-Building in Africa and Their Implications -- Autochthony and the Search for Ritual in Europe.
Autochthony : the Flip Side of Globalization? -- A Primordial yet Global Form of Belonging? -- Autochthony's Genealogy : Some Elements -- Autochthony Now : Globalization and the Neoliberal Turn -- Autochthony and the Tenacity of the Nation-State -- Historical construction, Political Manipulation and Emotional Power -- Historical Construction, Political Manipulation and Emotional power -- Approach : From Identity to Subjectivation and Aesthetics -- Chapter overiew -- Cameroon : Autochthony, Democratization ,and New Struggles over Citizenship -- Belonging to a Nonexistent Province -- Elite Associations and Autochthony : Different Degrees of Citizenship? -- The "Sea People" protected by the New Constitution -- Debates in the Cameroonian Press -- Autochthony's "Naturalness" : The Funeral as a Final Test for Belonging -- A tortuous history -- An Empty Discourse with Segmentary Implications -- Cameroon: Decentralization and Belonging -- The East and the New Importance of the Forest -- The New Forest Law -- Participation in Practice -- The Elusive Community -- The Community as Stakeholder: Belonging and Exclusion -- Village or Grande Famille? -- The Halfhearted Belonging of the External Elites -- Discovering Allogènes at Ever Closer Range -- African Trajectories -- Ivory Coast : Identification and Exclusion -- Elsewhere in Africa -- "Pygmy" Predicaments : Can Only Citizens Qualify as Autochthons? -- Autochthony in Europe : The Dutch Turn -- The Dutch Switch : From Multiculturalism to Cultural Integration -- Overview : How the Netherlands Became an "Immigration Country" -- National Consensus and Its History the Dutch Way -- Alternative Solutions -- A More Forceful Integration -- Allochtonen : A New Term on the Dutch Scene -- -
Despite being told that we now live in a cosmopolitan world, more and more people have begun to assert their identities in ways that are deeply rooted in the local. These claims of autochthony—meaning “born from the soil”—seek to establish an irrefutable, primordial right to belong and are often employed in politically charged attempts to exclude outsiders. In The Perils of Belonging, Peter Geschiere traces the concept of autochthony back to the classical period and incisively explores the idea in two very different contexts: Cameroon and the Netherlands.
Elusive Autochthony -- History and Culture -- Cpmparisons -- Cameroon : Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation -- Nation-Building as an Everyday Reality -- Rituals of Belonging : The Funeral at Home as a Celebration of Autochthony -- Epilogue : Can the Land Lie? Autochthony's Uncertainties in Africa and Europe -- Varying Patterns of Nation-Building in Africa and Their Implications -- Autochthony and the Search for Ritual in Europe
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Formerly CIP
Beschreibung:XI, 283 S.
23 cm
ISBN:9780226289649
978-0-226-28964-9
9780226289656
978-0-226-28965-6
0226289648
0-226-28964-8
0226289656
0-226-28965-6