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"This book challenges current views of what it means to be a citizen by focusing on displacement and experiences of space as a political concept. Developing the concept of 'political space', the author analyses how historical processes shape spatial arrangements, informing the identities and political subjectivity available to people. Using Bangladesh as a case study for camp and non-camp based displacement, the book argues that concepts of citizenship are temporally, socially and spatially produced and that therefore crude binary oppositions of statelessness and citizenship are no longer relevant. The book's findings are of relevance to wider problems of displacement, citizenship and ethnic relations worldwide"--ContentsMachine generated contents note: 1.IntroductionStatelessness and citizenshipDisplacement and state protection`Bare life'Camps and the creation of political spaceThe historical and social settingUrdu-speakers in national and international law, 1972-2008Conducting research at the limits of the state2.Spatial formations of exclusionThe state, the nation and its citizensNationalism, citizenship and the postcolonial nation-stateEthnicity, identity and community`Diaspora' and displacementNatural, social and `political space'3.The socio-spatial contours of communityBoundariesIntersectionsThe socio-spatial structureConclusion4.The crafting of citizenship: Property, territory and the post-colonial stateHistories of citizenship in BangladeshAgency, choice and blameSpace and `substantive' accessClaiming political subjectivityContents note continued: 5.The `social field of citizenship' and the language of rights`Identities of citizenship'Property and citizenship in Bangladesh: past and presentGains and lossesA look to the future6.Discourses of `integration': Capital, movement and `modernity'Economic capitalCultural capital: languageCultural capital: foods, festivals, religionSocial capital`Passing as Bengali'7.ConclusionNationlist discourse and the `crafting of citizenship'The creation of political spaceAgents or objects? The camp as a social formGlobalising forces and emergent spaces. |
