Outside Belongings

Go home?: The politics of immigration controversies

“…Amaal ' s observations of her local area -how it has changed over the years, how there are more complex histories and lives beneath appearances -tells us something important about space and place in modern urban life. As places heave and pulsate with social changes and the proximities of all sorts of differences, we can also cling to place to provide some stable and idealised sense of belonging, community and home ( Bammer, 1992 ;Probyn, 1996 ). In this chapter we explore some of these themes and the role of spaces and places in the implementation and reception of, and resistance to, immigration policing campaigns.…”

Stuck between ‘the rock’ and a hard place: rural crisis and re-imagining rural Newfoundland feminine subjectivities

“…In important ways, the story of rural crisis in Newfoundland's coastal communities can be read as a lament for the decline of a particular way of life that centres around the romanticized ideal of the 'traditional fisherman' (Power 2005). However, the experiences of Newfoundland's girls and women remain largely absent from the dominant story, a narrative blind spot, if you instance, 'belonging' points to the simultaneity of (be)ing in place and longing or yearning (Probyn 1996) to become something more or be somewhere else. Second, we draw upon the work of Walkerdine (2010), and foreground the importance that 'embodied affective' communal relations occupied in how the young women articulated their sense of emplaced belonging.…”

Exploring Community Festivals and Events

“…Various processes can create a sense of belonging, which in turn constructs assumptions about identification, in terms of social location (gender, race, or class), with regards to narratives of identity (Probyn, 1996;Fortier, 2000), and how these various constructions are attributed ethical and political value (Yuval-Davis, 2006). However, given the various forms of identification, belonging is never fixed and coherent, but rather fragmented, partial and mobile (Appadurai, 1996;Bauman, 2001).…”