T The politics of identity is concerned with exploring identity beyond H something that an agent ‘possesses’; instead, identity is interrogated as a E complex and often problematic category in social relations. In an era where ‘identity politics’ are heavily scrutinised, this edited collection turns the P focus around to the ‘politics of identity’, exploring how identity can be O constituted, and the ways in which it is created and contested, multiple and contradictory. The book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the ways L in which identity can be theorised, and the complexities that emerge in I T identity practices. I C The book contributes a unique interdisciplinary examination of timely case S studies from Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. These case studies explore emerging and problematic identity practices and policies O that have significant political, social, cultural and economic impact in relation to gender and sexuality, place and space, belonging and inclusion, migration F and citizenship, and security and foreign policy. These are explored through a I range of approaches from international relations, sociology, citizenship studies, D social psychology, memory studies, narrative theory and assemblage theory, E with different disciplines and perspectives critically analysing questions of N power, subjectivity, hierarchy and resistance. The book showcases the political T implications of identity, how it is constituted, and the effects it produces. I T This edited collection will be of particular interest to students of international Y relations theory, migration studies, gender and sexuality, post colonialism and policy-making at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. A Christine Agius is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at g THE Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia i u Dean Keep is Lecturer in Digital Media at Swinburne University of Technology, s Melbourne, Australia a n POLITICS d K e e OF IDENTITY p ( e d s ) Place, space and discourse www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk ISBN 978-1-5261-1024-4 Edited by Christine Agius Dean Keep and 9 781526 110244 The politics of identity The politics of identity Place, space and discourse Edited by CHRISTINE AGIUS AND DEAN KEEP Manchester University Press Copyright © Manchester University Press 2018 While copyright in the volume as a whole is vested in Manchester University Press, copyright in individual chapters belongs to their respective authors, and no chapter may be reproduced wholly or in part without the express permission in writing of both author and publisher. Published by Manchester University Press Altrincham Street, Manchester M1 7JA www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 5261 1024 4 hardback First published 2018 The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for any external or third- party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Typeset by Servis Filmsetting Ltd, Stockport, Cheshire To Connie Agius, who was always herself, and Shirley Keep, who could mix in any company. Contents List of contributors page ix Acknowledgements xiii List of abbreviations xiv 1 The politics of identity: making and disrupting identity 1 Christine Agius and Dean Keep Part I Establishing and consolidating identity 2 Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity 15 Christopher Mudaliar 3 Australian foreign policy and the vernacular of national belonging 34 Katie Linnane 4 Gendered identities in peacebuilding: an analysis of post-2006 Timor-Leste 53 Sarah Smith 5 Agents of peace: place, identity and peacebuilding 71 Gëzim Visoka Part II Identity rupture 6 A space for identity: the case of Lebanon’s naturalised Palestinians 91 Hind Ghandour viii Contents 7 The Romani ‘camp-dwellers’ in Rome: between state control and ‘collective-identity closure’ 107 Riccardo Armillei 8 Telling terrorism tales: narrative identity and Homeland 123 Louise Pears 9 Right(s) from the ground up: internal displacement, the urban periphery and belonging to the city 141 Helen Berents Part III Contesting identity 10 Sweden, military intervention and the loss of memory 159 Annika Bergman Rosamond and Christine Agius 11 Pollution and purity: caste-based discrimination and the mobilisation of Dalit sameness 180 Ted Svensson 12 The queer common: resisting the public at Gezi Park and beyond 199 Paul Gordon Kramer 13 Positive regard for difference without identity 217 Lucy Nicholas Index 237 Contributors Christine Agius is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. She has held previous lecturing posts in the UK and completed her PhD at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include Nordic politics and security, identity, and critical security studies. Current research interests include immigration, gender, sovereign bordering practices and drone warfare. She is the author of The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality: Challenges to Swedish Identity and Sovereignty (2006, Manchester University Press) and has published articles in Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue and other journals. She is the director of the Identity Research Network, which brings together interdisciplinary research on the theme of identity. Riccardo Armillei gained his PhD from Swinburne University of Technology in 2015 and has worked as an Associate Research Fellow for the UNESCO Chair, Cultural Diversity and Social Justice, based in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University, Australia. His research interests include Romani/‘Gypsy’ studies, citizenship and national identity, forced migrations, social justice, cross-cultural theories and practices. He has published his research in journals such as Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Contemporary Italian Politics and Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Helen Berents is a lecturer in the School of Justice, Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology. Her research explores representations of youth in political events and engages with the lived experiences of violence- affected young people, and she has carried out fieldwork in Colombia and Guatemala. More broadly, she is interested in questions of how people are