The Diaspora of the Comoros in France
Ethnicised Biopolitics and Communitarisation
Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62974-8 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-62974-8 (ISBN)
Based on an ethnographic study of mobilisations of the Comorian diaspora in Marseille during political and cultural events, the book examines communitarisation in relation to three thematic areas, namely spaces, cultural markets and local politics.
Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, the author analyses mobilisations of postcolonial diaspora as part of a dispositif of communitarisation, that is, a set of discourses, practices, institutions and subjectivations of diasporic community. She argues that constructions of ‘community’ are both shaped by and shape ethnicised biopolitics, expressed by modes of governing diasporic groups along ethnicised divisions and a marking of ethnicised communities as the Other of the French Republic. The performativity of a Comorian community brought into being through political, cultural, economic and customary practices also shows how Comorian communities govern themselves along ethnicised categories, at the intersection with generation, gender, age classes, locality and class. Communitarisation processes as part of ethnicised (self-)governing reveal postcolonial power relations in France as well as practices of negotiation and contestation on the part of Comorian communities.
This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of critical diaspora studies, critical ethnography, discourse and dispositif analysis, postcolonial politics, and the African diaspora.
Drawing on Foucault’s concept of the dispositif, the author analyses mobilisations of postcolonial diaspora as part of a dispositif of communitarisation, that is, a set of discourses, practices, institutions and subjectivations of diasporic community. She argues that constructions of ‘community’ are both shaped by and shape ethnicised biopolitics, expressed by modes of governing diasporic groups along ethnicised divisions and a marking of ethnicised communities as the Other of the French Republic. The performativity of a Comorian community brought into being through political, cultural, economic and customary practices also shows how Comorian communities govern themselves along ethnicised categories, at the intersection with generation, gender, age classes, locality and class. Communitarisation processes as part of ethnicised (self-)governing reveal postcolonial power relations in France as well as practices of negotiation and contestation on the part of Comorian communities.
This book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of critical diaspora studies, critical ethnography, discourse and dispositif analysis, postcolonial politics, and the African diaspora.
Katharina Fritsch holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Vienna. In her research and teaching activities, she has focused on postcolonial migration and diaspora, Foucauldian theory and methodology and intersectional and postcolonial perspectives.
1. Introduction, 2. The Dispositif of Communitarisation as an Analytical and Methodological Perspective, 3. Reflections on Doing Ethnography… from a (Critical) White Perspective, 4. Spaces of Communitarisation and Ethnicised Bordering, 5. Twarab as a Diasporic Cultural Market, 6. Etoiles Rasmi: ‘Ethno-Preneurialism’ and the Performativity of ‘Franco-Comorianness’, 7. Politics of Communitarisation and Postcolonial Mimicry, Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.07.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Routledge African Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 453 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-367-62974-7 / 0367629747 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-367-62974-8 / 9780367629748 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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