The perils of belonging: autochthony, citizenship, and exclusion in Africa and Europe
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Main Author: Geschiere, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago, IL University of Chicago Press 2009
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction: Autochthony, the Flip Side of Globalization? -- Cameroon: Autochthony, Democratization, and New Struggles over Citizenship -- Cameroon: Decentralization and Belonging -- African Trajectories -- Autochthony in Europe: The Dutch Turn -- Cameroon: Nation-Building and Autochthony as Processes of Subjectivation
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. In both countries, the mome
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 283 pages)
ISBN:0226289664
9780226289663

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