Robert Behrens asked:
>What would the (re)production of national identitiy consist in? Does it
>use technologies of a disciplinary sort, or repressive exclusionary forces?
>
If we look at the production of identity through declaring someone/something
"foreign", if we look at the immigration forms one has to fill in flying
into, say, the United States, if we look at the equations of foreigness with
crime so often found in the discourse on the "international" drug market,
etc. - yes, I would indeed say that here we do find repressive exclusionary
forces. Check David Campbells's "Writing Security: U.S. Foreign Policy and
the Politics of Identity" for a very good elaboration of that.
- Thomas
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>What would the (re)production of national identitiy consist in? Does it
>use technologies of a disciplinary sort, or repressive exclusionary forces?
>
If we look at the production of identity through declaring someone/something
"foreign", if we look at the immigration forms one has to fill in flying
into, say, the United States, if we look at the equations of foreigness with
crime so often found in the discourse on the "international" drug market,
etc. - yes, I would indeed say that here we do find repressive exclusionary
forces. Check David Campbells's "Writing Security: U.S. Foreign Policy and
the Politics of Identity" for a very good elaboration of that.
- Thomas
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Thomas Diez
Mannheim Centre for European Social Research
Mannheimer Zentrum fuer Europaeische Sozialforschung
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D-68131 Mannheim
Tel. ++49-(0)621-292-8465
Fax. ++49-(0)621-292-8435
Thomas.Diez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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