Social Beings, Future Belongings: Reimagining the Social

Cover
Half Title
Series Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
Notes on contributors
Introduction: belonging unbound
	Part I: toils
	Part II: intensities
	Part III: promises
	Belonging in academia
	References
Part I: Toils
	1 Naming belonging: when national vocabularies fail
		Introduction
		Belonging and its conflation with identity
		The asymmetry of belonging and the national
		The asymmetry of belonging defined by us and others
		Naming, being named and its consequences for belonging
		Not being from here: rupture, othering and double alienation
		Taxonomies of belonging
		Conclusion
		References
	2 ‘Their time and their story’: inscribing belonging through life narratives and role expectations in wedding videography
		Introduction
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	3 Academics anonymous: blogging and feminist ‘be/longings’ in the neoliberal university
		Introduction
		Belonging in the academy as a feminist killjoy
		Blogging, belonging and everyday activism
		Calling out sexism
		Speaking into the silence
		Humour and belonging
		Conclusion
		References
Part II: Intensities
	4 Transforming belongings in Guantánamo Bay
		Previous studies
		An intensive approach
		Fleshing out the enactments of subject status in Guantánamo Bay
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	5 Belonging in the future?
		Introduction
		The neglected future temporality of belonging
		Belonging and place: putting down roots as future-oriented
		When anticipation turns to open-ended waiting
		Concluding thoughts: belonging in the (un)making?
		Notes
		References
	6 Costumes of belonging: ‘fitting in’ circus fabrics in the novels The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith by Peter Carey and The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott, and the costume-cum-body art of Leigh Bowery
		‘Case study’ 1: a Trojan rodent
		‘Case study’ 2: rocket fuel for the body
		‘Case study’ 3: costume-cum-body art
		Costume-cum-bodies of belonging – conclusion on somatic hyperboles and physicus fiction
		Notes
		References
Part III: Promises
	7 Beyond human (un)belonging: intimacies and the impersonal in Black Mirror
		Introduction
		Desiring a human future
		Black Mirror and bad intimacy
		Individuation, the impersonal and intimacy
		Rethinking intimacy with impersonality
		Impersonal futures
		Note
		References
	8 Belonging, place and identity in the twenty-first century
		Introduction
		Uprooting
		Background
		Changing transitions to adulthood
		Class, place and belonging
		Subversion, symbolic violence and habitus clivé
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	9 Femininity isn’t femme: appearance and the contradictory space of queer femme belonging
		Introduction
		Defining the utopic femme online
		Embodying femme offline
		Conclusion
		References
Index