This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance a

This book explores belonging as a performative achievement. The contributors investigate how identities are embodied and effected, and how lines of allegiance a

Do our writings and our utterances reflect or describe our world, or do they intervene in it? Do they, perhaps, help to make it? If so, how? Within what limits,

In the past three decades, Nira Yuval-Davis' concept of belonging as well as Homi K. Bhabha's concept of mimicry have received considerable attention within soc

Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging consists of sixteen essays, reflecting the current conflicted debate on the ontology, constructiveness and affect