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    The geography of identity / edited by Patricia Yaeger.

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    • Title:The geography of identity / edited by Patricia Yaeger.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Yaeger, Patricia.
    • Published/Created:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Identity (Philosophical concept)
      Human geography.
    • Description:481 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Ratio.
    • Summary:Deterritorialization, translocality, globalization, postcolonial, postnational, transnational: We are in the midst of a redefinition of space. In the very moment that national and ethnic boundaries are breaking down we encounter paradoxical reinvestments in homeland, territorial integrity, localism, regionalism, and race - and ethnocentrism. How do we make sense of this contradictory mapping of global and local space? How do we understand state and national systems of sovereignty as geographic or place-centered dramas of domination? How do we maneuver between incommensurable histories of the regional and transnational in a postmodern world? The contributors to The Geography of Identity are at the forefront of the new social geography. Their essays investigate a range of topics as categories of analysis we have to reimagine. With its explorations of the urban heteroclite, the postcolony, and nativist ideologies of place, this volume promises to be a groundbreaking contribution to the remapping of global and local cartographies of culture.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
    • ISBN:0472106724 (hardcover : alk. paper)
      0472083503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
    • Contents:Introduction: Narrating Space / Patricia Yaeger
      1. Sovereignty without Territoriality: Notes for a Postnational Geography / Arjun Appadurai
      2. Mapping Identities: Place, Space, and Community in an African City / Michael Watts
      3. Kathmandu as Translocality: Multiple Places in a Nepali Space / Mark Liechty
      4. Identity in the Global City: Economic and Cultural Encasements / Saskia Sassen
      5. Figures of the Subject in Times of Crisis / Achille Mbembe and Janet Roitman
      6. Contrasting Narratives of Palestinian Identity / Rashid I. Khalidi
      7. Crisis of Culture, Crisis of State: Andre Malraux Ministers to French Culture, 1959-1969 / Herman Lebovics
      8. Queer Sites in Modernism: Harlem/The Left Bank/Greenwich Village / Joseph A. Boone
      9. Mediums, Messages, and Lucky Numbers: African-American Female Spiritualists and Numbers Runners in Interwar Detroit / Victoria W. Wolcott
      10. Modernism and the Specifics of Place / Gwendolyn Wright
      11. Landscapes of Terror: A Reading of Tuskegee's Historic Campus / Kenrick Ian Grandison
      12. The Politics of Trust / Bernard Williams
      13. Frontiers, Islands, Forests, Stones: Mapping the Geography of a German Identity in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1900 / Pieter M. Judson
      14. Dinnsheanchas: The Naming of High or Holy Places / Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
      15. Transparent Veils: Western Women Dis-Orient the East / Billie Melman
      16. Autocartography: The Case of Palestine, Michigan / Anton Shammas.
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