Reconfiguring identities and building territories in India and South Africa

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Reconfiguring identities and building territories in India and South Africa

ed. by Philippe Gervais-Lambony, Frédéric Landy and Sophie Oldfield

Manohar, 2005

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Summary: Contributed articles presented earlier at an international conference held in Nanterre, November 2001 on group identity and social psychology in India and South Africa

Includes bibliographical references

"Centre De Sciences Humaines" -- T.p.

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Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi Questions of territory, space and identity are critically important in the international geopolitical context as well as central to contemporary research in the social sciences. Processes connected with globalization have reconfigured identities and territories at multiple scales, connecting and disconnecting places in complex ways and re-enforcing old while producing new forms of segregation and polarisation. Global processes meet the complex and locally specific South African and Indian geographies of inequality, expressed at national, regional and local scale. In the South African case, a political imperative to transform the legacies of racial inequality from colonial and apartheid rule underscores the centrality of racial identities. However, racial discourse and differentiation embodies and at times masks a complex mix of place-based, gender, class and cultural identities, expressed in a multi-scalar politics of territory. Over 50 years into independent rule, Indian identity politics continues to build to a large extent on caste and the intricate ways in which caste-affiliation merges with religious, socio-economic, political and place-based identities. In both contexts, the politics of identity and territory simultaneously unify and divide. The spaces, territories and identities (re)produced in the complex contexts in which the global, national, regional and local meet lie at the heart of the research from which the papers in this book have been generated. The research investigated the reconfiguration of Indian and South African identities and territories through dialogue primarily between geographers, but also other social scientists, from India, South Africa and France.

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  • Introduction
  • The Challenge of Comparative Research in Geography & the Social Sciences
  • Segregation & Territory: What do We Mean? A Discussion in the Indian & South African Contexts
  • Identity, Space & Territory in India: An Anthropological Perspective
  • Re-inscribing Race & Ethnicity in Post-apartheid South Africa
  • Reflections on British Imperial Geography: India & South Africa
  • From a Privileged to an Unwanted Minority: The Asian Diaspora in Africa
  • Studying Urban Identities in South Africa
  • Entangled Isolation: Construction & Articulation of Naga Ethnicity in Indian Policy
  • From Conquest to Enclosure: South African Coloured Minorities & Their Territories
  • Contextualizing 'Territorial' & 'Social' Identities: Historical Regions & a Minority Community in North India
  • Land of the Ancestors & Territory of the Diaspora: The Example of the 'Indian' South Africans
  • Migration of an Identity: South Africans of Indian Descent
  • Indian Territories in Durban
  • Building White Spaces, Making White Minds: Space & Formation of 'White' Identity in South African former 'Poor White' Areas
  • Segregation & Fragmentation in South African Cities
  • Fragmentation & Access to the City: Cape Town & Delhi in Comparative Perspective
  • Can Institutional Integration Help Reduce Urban Segregation? Urban Policies & the Construction of Local Identities: Some Thoughts on the Johannesburg Experience
  • Urban Transition in South Africa: Negotiating Segregation.

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