Title & Author:

The geography of identity / edited by Patricia Yaeger.

Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1996.

Description:

481 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Ratio

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Narrating Space / Patricia Yaeger -- 1. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography / Arjun Appadurai -- 2. Mapping Identities: Place, Space, and Community in an African City / Michael Watts -- 3. Kathmandu as Translocality: Multiple Places in a Nepali Space / Mark Liechty -- 4. Identity in the Global City: Economic and Cultural Encasements / Saskia Sassen -- 5. Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis / Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman -- 6. Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity / Rashid I. Khalidi -- 7. Crisis of Culture, Crisis of State: Andre Malraux Ministers to French Culture, 1959-1969 / Herman Lebovics -- 8. Queer Sites in Modernism: Harlem/The Left Bank/Greenwich Village / Joseph A. Boone -- 9. Mediums, Messages, and Lucky Numbers: African-American Female Spiritualists and Numbers Runners in Interwar Detroit / Victoria W. Wolcott -- 10. Modernism and the Specifics of Place / Gwendolyn Wright.
11. Landscapes of Terror: A Reading of Tuskegee's Historic Campus / Kenrick Ian Grandison -- 12. The Politics of Trust / Bernard Williams -- 13. Frontiers, Islands, Forests, Stones: Mapping the Geography of a German Identity in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1900 / Pieter M. Judson -- 14. Dinnsheanchas: The Naming of High or Holy Places / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill -- 15. Transparent Veils: Western Women Dis-Orient the East / Billie Melman -- 16. Autocartography: The Case of Palestine, Michigan / Anton Shammas.

Summary:

Deterritorialization, translocality, globalization, postcolonial, postnational, transnational: We are in the midst of a redefinition of space. In the very moment that national and ethnic boundaries are breaking down we encounter paradoxical reinvestments in homeland, territorial integrity, localism, regionalism, and race - and ethnocentrism. How do we make sense of this contradictory mapping of global and local space? How do we understand state and national systems of sovereignty as geographic or place-centered dramas of domination? How do we maneuver between incommensurable histories of the regional and transnational in a postmodern world? The contributors to The Geography of Identity are at the forefront of the new social geography. Their essays investigate a range of topics as categories of analysis we have to reimagine. With its explorations of the urban heteroclite, the postcolony, and nativist ideologies of place, this volume promises to be a groundbreaking contribution to the remapping of global and local cartographies of culture.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0472106724 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780472106721 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0472083503 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780472083503 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Identity (Philosophical concept)
Human geography.
Identité.
Géographie humaine.
identity.
human geography.
Anthropogeografie
Politische Identität
Aufsatzsammlung
Sociale identiteit.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Geografia humana.
Ecologia humana.
Identity (Psychology)
Group identity.
Identity

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Yaeger, Patricia.
Ratio.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 82000
Call No.: ID HM291.G4; ID:95-B2839
Status: Available