Contesting Recognition

1. Introduction: Why Contesting Recognition?
Janice McLaughlin, Peter Phillimore, Diane Richardson

2. Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
Nira Yuval-Davis

3. Disability and the Pitfalls of Recognition
Jackie Leach Scully

4. ‘Normal people’: Recognition and the Middle Classes
Steph Lawler

5. Biological Citizenship in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Ruth P. Fitzgerald

6. From the Stranger to ‘the Other’: The Politics of Cosmopolitan Beirut
Steven Seidman

7. Naming Ourselves: Recognising Racism and Mestizaje in Mexico
Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa

8. Lesbian and Gay Parents’ Sexual Citizenship: Recognition, Belonging and (Re)classification
Yvette Taylor

9. The Paradox of Recognition: Success or Stigma for Children with Learning Disabilities
Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg

10. ‘The Rush to (East) German History’: Recognising Memory and Belonging
Anselma Gallinat

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Political Sociology, Gender Studies, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology, general, Social Theory, Anthropology