Category: contemporary belonging

This book overviews belonging in the British context from the perspective of ethnic minorities, exploring identity and agency outside of the protection of whiteness in the post-colonial West. It focuses on differing conceptions of Britishness and belonging, and offers narratives outlining various tensions experienced by members of British minority communities. The book draws on the…

This political text offers an historical overview of liberalism, globalization, and the resulting rise of the ‘cosmopolitan’ identity, positioned in opposition to particular localized identities and solidarities, and juxtaposed especially against fundamentalism. It then explores various forms of cosmopolitanism, how they are constituted across literature, and how they approach ideas of citizenship, both of nation-states…