The Disengaged Immigrant: Mapping the Francophone Caribbean Metropolis

Fulton, Dawn

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“…Some Latin American scholars have written of cities as crucibles for the emergence of new forms of citizenship. For James Holston (2007), the twin processes of democratization and urbanization in Brazil have led to productive encounters (see also Fulton 2007: 245), as citizens mobilized to assert and defend their rights in highly unequal and predatory settings. Such clashes are productive because they “entail conflicts of alternative formulations of citizenship,” and so “sites of metropolitan innovation often emerge at the very sites of metropolitan degradation” (2009:245).…”

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(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization

Cheeseman¹

2022

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The last decade has seen a growing consensus around two aspects of Africa's changing demographic and socio-economic profile and their impact on the continent's development. The first area of agreement is that "Africa's future is urban" (ISS 2016). Whereas the continent was overwhelmingly rural in the early years of independence, a majority of citizens will live in urban areas by 2050. The second area of convergence is that this demographic shift will have profound political and economic consequences (Murali et al. 2018), including kick-starting stalled processes of democratization (Anku & Enu-Kalu 2019). It is easy to see why so many

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(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization

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2022

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“Go where the Love Is”: Failed Emotional Negotiations of Space and Identity in Tessa McWatt's This Body

García¹

2013

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Identity, space and emotions, although traditionally all traditionally naturalized and delinked from the construction of one another, might also be read as formed by intertwined processes that are guided and shaped by hegemonic powers. Nonetheless, as they delineating difference within and among themselves, the consideration of these three fields and the way they work together in these shaping opens up new ways to approach the split between normative categories of identity, assigned location and adequate feelings, and their subjective perception. Tessa McWatt's novel This Body presents the reader with two Guyanese characters, Victoria and her nephew Derek, that undergo, at many different levels, this split between subjectivity and a socially and culturally given subject position. Challenging normative ideals, Victoria struggles with her categorization as Other; an endeavour marked by her trajectories and experiences as she negotiates and redeploys a physical as well as a social space of her own in the city of London. Still, her love relationship with a British man would make her drift towards assimilation inasmuch as this affair relocates Victoria within dominant gender, ethnic and class hierarchies.Plenty of the fiction dealing with diaspora and displaced subjects often relays on narratives of love in order to achieve a sense of fulfilment and belonging for their migratory characters. With romanticism at the centre of their stories, these narratives, as non-conformist as they might be in other respects, seem to maintain a highly uncritical

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Paroles Et Silences Chez Marie-Célie Agnant

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The Disengaged Immigrant: Mapping the Francophone Caribbean Metropolis

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(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization

(Mis)Understanding Urban Africa: Toward A Research Agenda on the Political Impact of Urbanization

“Go where the Love Is”: Failed Emotional Negotiations of Space and Identity in Tessa McWatt's This Body

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