Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction

Bell, Vikki

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“…The performativity of belonging and of the politics of belonging is also stressed by Antonsich and Yuval Davis. Following the feminist theorist Judith Butler as well as Vikki Bell (1999) and Anne-Marie Fortier (2000), YuvalDavis (2011, p. 15f) states: "Specific repetitive practices, relating to specific social and cultural spaces, which link individual and collective behaviour, are crucial for the construction and reproduction of identity narratives and constructions of attachment". Latour (2005, p. 217) argues that the consideration of attachments should be prior to consideration of actors as objects of research, in order to shed light on the enactments of social formations and how they perform and stabilize (unequal) social and power relations.…”

Section: Space As Cross-cutting Social Category In Intersectional Appmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Youkhana

2015

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The study of belonging, its underlying notions, and the politics of belonging shows that social, political, and territorial demarcations are still based on essentialist conceptions of the collective. These are often applied and reproduced in the social sciences as a result of methodological nationalism. Space-sensitive studies of migration and globalization and a return to the material have recently challenged social constructivist lines of argumentation and have provoked a conceptual shift from analytical categories with inherent spatiality, territoriality, and boundary marking to concepts based on movement and flow. In this paper the analysis of belonging and the related politics of belonging in migration studies incorporates space as an analytical category that cross-cuts established categorizations such as race, class, gender, and stage in the life cycle, and integrates a material semiotic perspective more systematically into the study of social relations at the intersection of the social categories mentioned. A new concept of belonging is defined which reflects the complex relations that individuals have with other people, circulating objects, artefacts, and changing social, political, and cultural landscapes, thus mirroring both the material conditions and the underlying power relations. Such an understanding of belonging proceeds from social naturalizations and fixations to the multiplicity and situatedness of individual attachments, which entangle social, imagined, and sensual-material relations that are constantly re-articulated and re-negotiated by actors in their day-to-day practices. In such a reading, belonging comes into being as a result of individual life stories, versatile contexts, and situated experiences and acts. In times of constant exchange through travel, mass media, and communication technologies, the conceptualization of belonging questions established sociocultural and political demarcations, indicates the compatibility of ascribed socio-cultural difference and stresses the permeability of borderlines. A space-sensitive theorization of social relations and belonging opens up new perspectives on the question of how social collectives are naturalized and by whom, and under which conditions they open up to new forms of belonging; it thus brings forth new findings about collectivization, social mobilization, and change.

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Section: Space As Cross-cutting Social Category In Intersectional Appmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Youkhana

2015

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“…But Bell (1999) also notes that all communities have histories to them, some of which are more inclusive than others, some afford belonging while others seem not to. The Derbyshire family remind us that borders are to be crossed and new homelands to be found.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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“…Similar demands could be made of studies of disability, childhood and critical psychology. We are reminded by Bell (1999) that identities and subjective sense of oneself is not being but also longing; there is an affective/emotional dimension to occupying a self and social space.…”

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Critical psychologies of disability: boundaries, borders and bodies in the lives of disabled children

Goodley

Runswick‐Cole

2014

Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

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Attending to the ways in which bodies and subjectivities are constituted in social environments is not simply a concern of social geographers but an emerging interest in critical psychology, childhood and disability studies. Curti and Moreno (2010) have argued that boundaries and borders are nothing if not the different relational and durational articulations of bodies and spaces. These entangled boundaries include borders between parent and child; culture and body; school, family and child.Through analysing the ways in which these borderlines are continually re-composed and re-constituted we are able, following Curti and Moreno, to reveal their relational and embodied articulations. In previous work we have explored the ways in which disabled children disrupt normative orders associated with school, family and community (Goodley and Runswick-Cole, 2012a). In this paper we take up the concepts of boundaries and borders to explore their relational and embodied articulations with specific reference to stories collected as part of an ESRC project entitled ÔDoes every child matter, Post-Blair: the interconnections of disabled childhoodsÕ. We ask, how do disabled children negotiate space in their lives? In what ways do they challenge space through their borders and boundaries with others? How can we re-imagine, re-think and differently practice Ð that is revolutionize Ð key borders and boundaries of education in ways that affirm the lives of disabled children? We address these questions through reference to the narrative from the Derbyshire family, with particular focus on Hannah and her mother Linda, which we argue allow us consider the ways in which disabled childhoods can be understood and reimagined. We explore two analytical considerations; ÔBeing disabled: being muggedÕ and ÔBecoming enabled: teacups, saucers and communitiesÕ.2

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“…From the friction of political memory, an oppositional reading is opened up that visualizes multi-layered constructions of spatiality and belonging (Ahmed 2010;Lukic and Espinoza 2011). To trace these multiple layers and their interrelatedness through time and over space, I employ a palimpsestic reading mode of the material (Bell 1999;Fortier 1999;Genette 1997;Puar 2007). My positioning in this article follows Kamala Visweswaran's (1994) notion of the feminist ethnographer as trickster, rooted in the ambiguity and tension of insider/outsider positions.…”

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Borders and belongings in Nordic feminisms and beyond

Liinason

2018

Gender, Place & Culture

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Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with feminist grassroots groups and women's organizations in a Nordic context, this article aims to explore how feminist enactments shape multiple layers of spatiality and belonging. I analyse autoethnographic reflections from two feminist events, both taking place in Malmö in June 2014. Rather than understanding Nordic feminisms as a stable object, I follow in this article the initiative of decolonial scholars to analyze how feminist communities are shaped by affects, enactments and inhabitations which both 'speak back' to located conditions and transgress beyond them. I use phenomenology in my engagement with the material and employ a palimpsestic reading mode to trace the multi-layered constructions of spatiality and belonging in feminist performances, identifications and affiliations. As affective value shaped the effects of surfaces or borders of bodies and spaces, theorizations on affect helped me to grasp how complex forms of belonging became entwined with particular performances of geography and history.

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Performativity and Belonging: An Introduction

Cited by 85 publications

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A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

A Conceptual Shift in Studies of Belonging and the Politics of Belonging

Critical psychologies of disability: boundaries, borders and bodies in the lives of disabled children

Borders and belongings in Nordic feminisms and beyond

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