Free Download Raymond A. Rocco, "Transforming Citizenship: Democracy, Membership, and Belonging in Latino Communities "
English | ISBN: 1611861330 | 2014 | 278 pages | PDF | 1247 KB
In Transforming Citizenship Raymond Rocco studies the "exclusionary inclusion" of Latinos based on racialization and how the processes behind this have shaped their marginalized citizenship status, offering a framework for explaining this dynamic. Contesting this status has been at the core of Latino politics for more than 150 years. Pursuing the goal of full, equal, and just inclusion in societal membership has long been a major part of the struggle to realize democratic normative principles. This illuminating research demonstrates the inherent limitations of the citizenship regime in the United States for incorporating Latinos as full societal members and offers an alternative conception, "associative citizenship," that provides a way to account for and challenge the pattern of exclusionary belonging that has defined the positions of the Latinos in U.S. society. Through a critical engagement with key theorists such as Rawls, Habermas, Kymlicka, Walzer, Taylor, and Young, Rocco advances an original analysis of the politics of Latino societal membership and citizenship, arguing that the specific processes of racialization that have played a determinative role in creating and maintaining the pattern of social and political exclusions of Latinos have not been addressed by the dominant theories of diversity and citizenship developed in the prevalent literature in political theory.

Free Download Jutta Bakonyi, "Precarious Urbanism: Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities "
English | ISBN: 1529215226 | 2023 | 234 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or economic pressures, it highlights how these populations are actively transforming urban space. Using first-hand testimonies and participatory photography by urban in-migrants, the book documents and analyses the micropolitics of urban camp management, evictions and gentrification, and the networked labour of displaced populations that underpins growing urban economies. Central throughout is a critical analysis of how the discursive figure of the 'internally displaced person' is co-produced by various actors. The book argues that this label exerts significant power in structuring socio-economic inequalities and the politics of group belonging within different Somali cities connected through protracted histories of conflict-related migration.

Free Download Magdalena Waligorska-huhle, "Music, Longing and Belonging: Articulations of the Self and the Other in the Musical Realm"
English | ISBN: 1443848301 | 2013 | 235 pages | PDF | 2 MB
With contributions from musicologists, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and literary scholars, this book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on how different modes of musical sociability - ranging from opera performances to collective singing and internet fan communities - inspire "imagined communities" that not only transcend national borders, but also challenge the boundaries between the self and the other. While the relationship between music and nationhood has been widely researched, few comparative and transnational studies on music and identity exist. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is on forms of musical belonging not bound by national identity, which take place in contexts of appropriation and displacement. The essays collected here address different modes of musical self-expression through the art of others and frame music as a unique medium of desire, which not only channels the experience of belonging during times of social and political upheaval, but also induces its opposite - non-belonging, detachment and dissent. The book is organized into four sections, each focusing on different aspect of musical experience: music as a site of cultural appropriation, music as a conduit of transnational identities, its role in diaspora and displacement, and, finally, music as a means of negotiating gendered identities.

Free Download Inclusive Leadership: Equity and Belonging in Our Communities (Building Leadership Bridges) by Joanne Barnes, Michael J. Stevens, Bjørn Zakarias Ekelund, Karen Perham-Lippman
English | October 16th, 2023 | ISBN: 1837974411 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 1.97 MB
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Access (DEIB/A) represent essential features of the human side of any organization or community. To fulfil dreams and aspirations and to foster collective flourishing, inclusive leadership is vital. Making this happen is the central challenge and the focus of this collection of chapters comprising a wide variety of authors and perspectives.

Free Download Sharon A. Hersh, "Belonging: Finding the Way Back to One Another"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1631469606 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 2.3 mb
Belonging offers a fresh perspective on common grace, leading us out of self-destructive narcissism and into whole and healthy relationships with God and others.

Free Download A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham
English | February 13th, 2024 | ISBN: 0593545575 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 0.64 MB
"This stunning meditation on nostalgia, heritage, and compassion asks us to dismantle the stories we've been told-and told ourselves-in order to naturalize the forms of injustice we've come to understand as order." -Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

Free Download A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CB72LDMV | 2024 | 7 hours and 22 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Lauren Markham
Narrator: Gilli Messer

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Title: A Map of Future Ruins
Author: Lauren Markham
Year: 2024

The Economics of Belonging by Martin Sandbu | 1.87 MB
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Title: The Economics of Belonging
Author: Martin Sandbu
Year: 2020

Free Download Abigail Gardner, "Listening, Belonging, and Memory"
English | ISBN: 1501376802 | 2023 | 190 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Listening, Belonging, and Memory puts connected listening at the center of current debates around whose voices might be listened to, who by, and why. Arguing that listening has to be understood in relation to the self, nation, age, witnessing, and memory, it uses examples from digital storytelling, listening projects, and critical media analysis to highlight connections between listening and power. It centers on voices, stories, and silence, how they interweave, and are activated, maneuvered, reconfigured, and denied. It focuses on the small, microengagements that crouch within the superstructures of violent border control and the censorious policing of sonic citizenry, identifying cracks in the reshuffling of histories and hierarchies that connected listening affords.