The diaspora of the Comoros in France ethnicised biopolitics and communitarisation / Katharina Fritsch.
| Author/creator | Fritsch, Katharina, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, 2023. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge African studies |
| Contents | Introduction -- The Dispositif of Communitarisation as an Analytical and Methodological Perspective -- Reflections on Doing Ethnography ... from a (Critical) White Perspective -- Spaces of Communitarisation and Ethnicised Bordering -- Twarab as a Diasporic Cultural Market -- Etoiles Rasmi: 'Ethno-Preneurialism' and the Performativity of 'Franco-Comorianness' -- Politics of Communitarisation and Postcolonial Mimicry -- Conclusion. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Fritsch, Katharina, 1956- Diaspora of the Comoros in France London ; New York : Routledge, 2023 9780367627942 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022002520 |
| ISBN | 9781000614176 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003111665 (ebook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |