Nomadic Identities

Nomadic Identities

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Joseph May
University of Minnesota Press
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A look at citizenship through the lens of performance.

In a modern world of vast migrations and relocations, the rights-and rites-of citizenship are increasingly perplexing, and ever more important. This book asks how citizenship is enacted when all the world’s the stage.

Kung Fu cinema, soul music, plays, and speeches are some of the media May Joseph considers as expressive negotiations for legal and cultural citizenship. Nomadic Identities combines material culture and historical approaches to forge connections between East Africa, India, Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States in the struggles for democratic citizenship. Exploring the notion of nomadic citizenship as a modern construct, Joseph emphasizes culture as the volatile mise-en-scÈne through which popular conceptions of local and national citizenship emerge.

Joseph, an Asian African from Tanzania, brings a personal insight to the question of how citizenship is expressed-particularly the nomadic, conditional citizenship related to histories of migrancy and the tenuous status of immigrants. Nomadic Identities investigates the metaphoric, literal, and performed possibilities available in different arenas of the everyday through which individuals and communities experience citizenship, successfully or not. A unique inquiry into contemporary experiences of migrancy linking Tanzania, Britain, and the United States, this book blends political theory, performance studies, cultural studies, and historical writing. It offers vignettes that describe the official and informal cultural transactions that designate citizenship under the globalizing forces of decolonization, the cold war, and transnational networks.

Crossing the globe, Nomadic Identities provides fresh insights into the contemporary phenomena of territorial displacement and the resulting local and transnational movements of people.
EAN 9780816626373
ISBN 0816626375
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Publication date May 1, 1999
Pages 192
Language English
Dimensions 229 x 149 x 13
Country United States
Readership Professional & Scholarly
Authors Joseph May
Series Public Worlds
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