TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thapan, Meenakshi, ed.
TI  - Contested  spaces: citizenship and belonging in contemporary times
SN  - 9788125040927
U1  - 323.6 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Orient Blackswan
KW  - National characteristics	
KW  - Exceptionalism
KW  - Ethnopsychology
KW  - Gender identity
N1  - List of Figures
Acknowledgements 	
1. 	 Introduction: The Dynamics of Citizenship Meenakshi Thapan and Valerie Raoul 
Exclusionary Practices Perpetuated through State Policies

2. 	 Remembering and Contested Patriotism: Embodied Practices of the Sri Lankan Nation-State 
Sasanka Perera

3. 	 Struggles Over 'School Time': Temporal Organisation of Schooling in Nepal and Denmark
Karen Valentin

4. 	 'Why Do I Not Belong?' The Struggle for Integration across Barriers of Race and Language in a 
Canadian School 
Meenakshi Thapan Embodiment, Language and the Experience of Identity

5. 	 Citizenship, Immigration, and Embodiment: Vietnamese Americans in North-Central Texas
Deborah Reed-Danahay

6. 	 Folk Art, State Patronage and the Constitution of the Local
Roma Chatterji

7. 	 Frenchness on Trial in Canada: Language, Religion, Race and Gender in Current Debates on Immigration in Quebec
Valerie Raoul 
Gender, Identity and the State 

8. 	 Globalisation, Embourgeoisement and Violence: Shifting Frames of Masculinity in Sinhala Discourse
Jani de Silva

9. 	 The Politics of Gender Identity amongst Buddhist nuns in Myanmar 
Hiroko Kawanami 

10. 	 Imperialist Missions: Representing Muslims in the War on Terror 
Sunera Thobani 

Notes on the Contributors
Index
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