A M Fortier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 34620 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | A M Fortier |
| NOMBRES | A M |
| APELLIDO | Fortier |
| FIRMA | FORTIER A M |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7870-4399 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 605 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The speaking citizen
This article concerns contemporary common-sense politics around language, integration, and citizenship that pervade Western European countries, where language is at the basis of a new model of citizenship – jus linguarum. I situate jus linguarum as the product of two seemingly different logics: the logics of neoliberalism and the logics (and legacies) of colonialism. I argue that jus linguarum obscures the fact that ‘national language’ is a histo…
Uncertain citizenship
Uncertainty is central to the governance of citizenship, but in ways that erase, even deny, this uncertainty. Uncertain citizenship investigates this uncertainty from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' – twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in what Anne-Marie Fortier calls the waiting room of citizenship. Fortie…
Afterword
This afterword addresses four broad questions raised by this special issue: uncertainty as a mode of governance, the ontological politics of naturalisation, the citizen-noncitizen distinction, and performative (anxious) states. First, taking uncertainty as a mode of neoliberal governance as the starting point of analysis, this afterword invites the scrutiny of the ways in which the artifice and uncertainty of citizenship are concealed or rendered…
Migrant Belongings
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of identity through both movement and attachment. The study follows the Italian identity project since 1975, when community leaders first raised concerns about 'the future of invisible immigrants'. The author uses the image of 'invisible immigrants' as the…
On (Not) Speaking English
This article examines the colonial legacies shaping current language requirements for immigrants applying for settlement or citizenship in Britain. The article argues that common sense understandings of 'national language' and monolingualism/multilingualism were developed in the context of imperial expansion, the legacies of which resonate today in a disdain for multilingualism and other Englishes conceived as hampering cohesion. Put simply, othe…
The psychic life of policy
This article empirically grounds the ‘psychic life of power’ (Butler, 1997) by demonstrating the psychic form that power takes as immigrants or agents of the state make their way through the British ‘citizenisation’ policy – i.e. the ‘integration’ policy that requires noncitizens to acquire ‘citizen-like’ skills and values in view of seeking citizenship or other statuses (e.g. settlement). The framing argument is that an ambivalent relationship b…
Afterword
After briefly discussing the ‘affective turn’ in citizenship studies, this afterword discusses the political mobilisation of affect to consider when, where and how affect may be connected to citizenship. It asks: What does it mean and do to speak of affective acts as acts of affective citizenship? I argue that the phrase ‘affective citizenship’ attaches affect to a very specific object: citizenship. Studying affective citizenship requires attenti…
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
What's the big deal? Naturalisation and the politics of desire
This article takes the naturalisation process as a vantage point to consider how citizenship constitutes a site of emotional investment not only on the part of applicants and ‘new’ citizens but also on the part of the state. The premise of this article is that naturalisation is more than solely the admission of foreigners to the position and rights of citizenship, and it approaches naturalisation as a state practice that needs to be understood wi…
Genetic Indigenisation in ‘The People of the British Isles’
In 2007, Channel 4 screened 'Face of Britain', a documentary about the genetic mapping of Britain. 'Face of Britain' promised to reveal ‘who we really are’ by tracing genetic links back to ancient Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. This article situates 'Face of Britain' within the wider racial and national politics that it is invariably caught up in, and examines how ‘race’ and racial thinking are reconfigured in ways that are both ‘old’ …
Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease
Community cohesion' is the preferred framework for managing 'race relations' and 'conflict' in contemporary Britain. Initially adopted in government policy following civil disturbances in the summer of 2001, 'community cohesion' combined visions of shared belonging with strategies of managing diversity. More recent versions still place a strong emphasis on ideas of shared belonging but these are combined with strategies of managing migration and …
Multicultural Horizons
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation.…
Too Close for Comfort
In this paper I examine how new forms of multicultural intimacy are imagined in contemporary Britain, and how they are invested with particular ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour, and feelings for the nation. I trace these discursive themes in a myriad of social locations and forms-a television documentary titled The Last White Kids, reviews of the documentary in the press, and government policies on community cohesion. A key point of this pa…
Community, Belonging and Intimate Ethnicity
This paper analyses the role of the Centro Scalabrini in London in defining a sense of belonging and identification for Italians in Britain. The essay broadens the conventional focus on how community organizations contribute to constructing an ‘imagined community’ for minority or migrant populations by suggesting that organizations are used as cultural objects and collective props for enacting and experiencing collective affective belonging abroa…
The Politics of Scaling, Timing and Embodying
This paper explores ways in which we can fruitfully analyse and theorize ‘New Europe’ through migration, in so far as migration is an integral part of the way the world is imagined, and as such impacts on how individuals, communities, nations or multi/international formations such as the European Union imagine themselves and their (co)inhabitants. The article discusses three theoretical strands that relate to the forces of spatiality (scaling), t…
Pride politics and multiculturalist citizenship
This article examines public declarations of national pride and accusations of national shame printed in English national newspapers in the four weeks following the publication of the Parekh Report, in October 2000. A key aim of this article is to consider the role of emotions in policing the terms of belonging and entitlement to citizenry. I discuss the effects of displays of emotions on the kind of national community, and national subject, that…
Re-Imagining Communities
Langue et identité chez les Québécois d'ascendance italienne
Dans quelle mesure la relation métonymique entre langue " d'origine " et identité ethnique telle qu'institutionnalisée au Québec est-elle intégrée par les membres de groupes minoritaires ? Dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur la construction du lien entre langue et identité ethnique, l'auteure analyse le discours de Québécois d'ascendance italienne sur certaines de leurs pratiques linguistiques. Les données présentées révèlent quelques-unes des comp…
Coming home’
This article proposes an examination of recent interventions in queer studies that project queer culture and politics within a diasporic framework. Drawing on written narratives of what may be termed ‘queer migrations’, I seek to map the intersections of queer memories and diasporic spaces as they are uttered in terms of ‘home’. By following the movement of queer subjects between homes, I examine how ‘home’, migration and belonging relate to each…
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)
Focusing on discourses and practices of identity in an Italian organization in London, this article examines the relationship between the construction of the identity of places and the construction of terrains of belonging. Various forms of cultural practices that mark out spatial and identity boundaries for the London Italian population are discussed in relation to the deployment of gender and ethnicity. Advancing a corporeal approach to identit…
"The Politics of "Italians Abroad
Italian people's relationship to national identity is complicated by a history of mass emigration that reached important proportions in the years following Italian Unification. There are approximately 4.5 million Italian emigrants living outside Italy, and an estimated 25 million emigrated between 1876 and 1965 (Vasta). When descendants of emigrants are included in the surveys, estimates reach up to 65 million people of “Italian origin” living ar…
The use of personal experiences as sources of knowledge
It's possible, too, that there is no such thing as one clear line or strand of probability, and that we live on a sort of twisted braid, blurring from one to the other without even knowing it, as long as we keep within the limits of a set of variations that really make no difference to us. (Russ, 1985: 7
Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease
Community cohesion' is the preferred framework for managing 'race relations' and 'conflict' in contemporary Britain. Initially adopted in government policy following civil disturbances in the summer of 2001, 'community cohesion' combined visions of shared belonging with strategies of managing diversity. More recent versions still place a strong emphasis on ideas of shared belonging but these are combined with strategies of managing migration and …
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)
Focusing on discourses and practices of identity in an Italian organization in London, this article examines the relationship between the construction of the identity of places and the construction of terrains of belonging. Various forms of cultural practices that mark out spatial and identity boundaries for the London Italian population are discussed in relation to the deployment of gender and ethnicity. Advancing a corporeal approach to identit…
Afterword
After briefly discussing the ‘affective turn’ in citizenship studies, this afterword discusses the political mobilisation of affect to consider when, where and how affect may be connected to citizenship. It asks: What does it mean and do to speak of affective acts as acts of affective citizenship? I argue that the phrase ‘affective citizenship’ attaches affect to a very specific object: citizenship. Studying affective citizenship requires attenti…
Coming home’
This article proposes an examination of recent interventions in queer studies that project queer culture and politics within a diasporic framework. Drawing on written narratives of what may be termed ‘queer migrations’, I seek to map the intersections of queer memories and diasporic spaces as they are uttered in terms of ‘home’. By following the movement of queer subjects between homes, I examine how ‘home’, migration and belonging relate to each…
Pride politics and multiculturalist citizenship
This article examines public declarations of national pride and accusations of national shame printed in English national newspapers in the four weeks following the publication of the Parekh Report, in October 2000. A key aim of this article is to consider the role of emotions in policing the terms of belonging and entitlement to citizenry. I discuss the effects of displays of emotions on the kind of national community, and national subject, that…
Too Close for Comfort
In this paper I examine how new forms of multicultural intimacy are imagined in contemporary Britain, and how they are invested with particular ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour, and feelings for the nation. I trace these discursive themes in a myriad of social locations and forms-a television documentary titled The Last White Kids, reviews of the documentary in the press, and government policies on community cohesion. A key point of this pa…
What's the big deal? Naturalisation and the politics of desire
This article takes the naturalisation process as a vantage point to consider how citizenship constitutes a site of emotional investment not only on the part of applicants and ‘new’ citizens but also on the part of the state. The premise of this article is that naturalisation is more than solely the admission of foreigners to the position and rights of citizenship, and it approaches naturalisation as a state practice that needs to be understood wi…
The psychic life of policy
This article empirically grounds the ‘psychic life of power’ (Butler, 1997) by demonstrating the psychic form that power takes as immigrants or agents of the state make their way through the British ‘citizenisation’ policy – i.e. the ‘integration’ policy that requires noncitizens to acquire ‘citizen-like’ skills and values in view of seeking citizenship or other statuses (e.g. settlement). The framing argument is that an ambivalent relationship b…
Re-Imagining Communities
On (Not) Speaking English
This article examines the colonial legacies shaping current language requirements for immigrants applying for settlement or citizenship in Britain. The article argues that common sense understandings of 'national language' and monolingualism/multilingualism were developed in the context of imperial expansion, the legacies of which resonate today in a disdain for multilingualism and other Englishes conceived as hampering cohesion. Put simply, othe…
The use of personal experiences as sources of knowledge
It's possible, too, that there is no such thing as one clear line or strand of probability, and that we live on a sort of twisted braid, blurring from one to the other without even knowing it, as long as we keep within the limits of a set of variations that really make no difference to us. (Russ, 1985: 7
The Politics of Scaling, Timing and Embodying
This paper explores ways in which we can fruitfully analyse and theorize ‘New Europe’ through migration, in so far as migration is an integral part of the way the world is imagined, and as such impacts on how individuals, communities, nations or multi/international formations such as the European Union imagine themselves and their (co)inhabitants. The article discusses three theoretical strands that relate to the forces of spatiality (scaling), t…
Genetic Indigenisation in ‘The People of the British Isles’
In 2007, Channel 4 screened 'Face of Britain', a documentary about the genetic mapping of Britain. 'Face of Britain' promised to reveal ‘who we really are’ by tracing genetic links back to ancient Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. This article situates 'Face of Britain' within the wider racial and national politics that it is invariably caught up in, and examines how ‘race’ and racial thinking are reconfigured in ways that are both ‘old’ …
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
The speaking citizen
This article concerns contemporary common-sense politics around language, integration, and citizenship that pervade Western European countries, where language is at the basis of a new model of citizenship – jus linguarum. I situate jus linguarum as the product of two seemingly different logics: the logics of neoliberalism and the logics (and legacies) of colonialism. I argue that jus linguarum obscures the fact that ‘national language’ is a histo…
Afterword
This afterword addresses four broad questions raised by this special issue: uncertainty as a mode of governance, the ontological politics of naturalisation, the citizen-noncitizen distinction, and performative (anxious) states. First, taking uncertainty as a mode of neoliberal governance as the starting point of analysis, this afterword invites the scrutiny of the ways in which the artifice and uncertainty of citizenship are concealed or rendered…
"The Politics of "Italians Abroad
Italian people's relationship to national identity is complicated by a history of mass emigration that reached important proportions in the years following Italian Unification. There are approximately 4.5 million Italian emigrants living outside Italy, and an estimated 25 million emigrated between 1876 and 1965 (Vasta). When descendants of emigrants are included in the surveys, estimates reach up to 65 million people of “Italian origin” living ar…
The use of personal experiences as sources of knowledge
It's possible, too, that there is no such thing as one clear line or strand of probability, and that we live on a sort of twisted braid, blurring from one to the other without even knowing it, as long as we keep within the limits of a set of variations that really make no difference to us. (Russ, 1985: 7
"The Politics of "Italians Abroad
Italian people's relationship to national identity is complicated by a history of mass emigration that reached important proportions in the years following Italian Unification. There are approximately 4.5 million Italian emigrants living outside Italy, and an estimated 25 million emigrated between 1876 and 1965 (Vasta). When descendants of emigrants are included in the surveys, estimates reach up to 65 million people of “Italian origin” living ar…
Re-Membering Places and the Performance of Belonging(s)
Focusing on discourses and practices of identity in an Italian organization in London, this article examines the relationship between the construction of the identity of places and the construction of terrains of belonging. Various forms of cultural practices that mark out spatial and identity boundaries for the London Italian population are discussed in relation to the deployment of gender and ethnicity. Advancing a corporeal approach to identit…
Coming home’
This article proposes an examination of recent interventions in queer studies that project queer culture and politics within a diasporic framework. Drawing on written narratives of what may be termed ‘queer migrations’, I seek to map the intersections of queer memories and diasporic spaces as they are uttered in terms of ‘home’. By following the movement of queer subjects between homes, I examine how ‘home’, migration and belonging relate to each…
Langue et identité chez les Québécois d'ascendance italienne
Dans quelle mesure la relation métonymique entre langue " d'origine " et identité ethnique telle qu'institutionnalisée au Québec est-elle intégrée par les membres de groupes minoritaires ? Dans le cadre d'une réflexion sur la construction du lien entre langue et identité ethnique, l'auteure analyse le discours de Québécois d'ascendance italienne sur certaines de leurs pratiques linguistiques. Les données présentées révèlent quelques-unes des comp…
Re-Imagining Communities
Pride politics and multiculturalist citizenship
This article examines public declarations of national pride and accusations of national shame printed in English national newspapers in the four weeks following the publication of the Parekh Report, in October 2000. A key aim of this article is to consider the role of emotions in policing the terms of belonging and entitlement to citizenry. I discuss the effects of displays of emotions on the kind of national community, and national subject, that…
Community, Belonging and Intimate Ethnicity
This paper analyses the role of the Centro Scalabrini in London in defining a sense of belonging and identification for Italians in Britain. The essay broadens the conventional focus on how community organizations contribute to constructing an ‘imagined community’ for minority or migrant populations by suggesting that organizations are used as cultural objects and collective props for enacting and experiencing collective affective belonging abroa…
The Politics of Scaling, Timing and Embodying
This paper explores ways in which we can fruitfully analyse and theorize ‘New Europe’ through migration, in so far as migration is an integral part of the way the world is imagined, and as such impacts on how individuals, communities, nations or multi/international formations such as the European Union imagine themselves and their (co)inhabitants. The article discusses three theoretical strands that relate to the forces of spatiality (scaling), t…
Too Close for Comfort
In this paper I examine how new forms of multicultural intimacy are imagined in contemporary Britain, and how they are invested with particular ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour, and feelings for the nation. I trace these discursive themes in a myriad of social locations and forms-a television documentary titled The Last White Kids, reviews of the documentary in the press, and government policies on community cohesion. A key point of this pa…
Multicultural Horizons
The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the ‘New Britain’ of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural. Introducing the concept of ‘multicultural intimacies’, Anne-Marie Fortier offers a new form of critical engagement with the cultural politics of multiculturalism, one that attends to ideals of mixing, loving thy neighbour and feelings for the nation.…
Proximity by design? Affective citizenship and the management of unease
Community cohesion' is the preferred framework for managing 'race relations' and 'conflict' in contemporary Britain. Initially adopted in government policy following civil disturbances in the summer of 2001, 'community cohesion' combined visions of shared belonging with strategies of managing diversity. More recent versions still place a strong emphasis on ideas of shared belonging but these are combined with strategies of managing migration and …
Genetic Indigenisation in ‘The People of the British Isles’
In 2007, Channel 4 screened 'Face of Britain', a documentary about the genetic mapping of Britain. 'Face of Britain' promised to reveal ‘who we really are’ by tracing genetic links back to ancient Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans. This article situates 'Face of Britain' within the wider racial and national politics that it is invariably caught up in, and examines how ‘race’ and racial thinking are reconfigured in ways that are both ‘old’ …
What's the big deal? Naturalisation and the politics of desire
This article takes the naturalisation process as a vantage point to consider how citizenship constitutes a site of emotional investment not only on the part of applicants and ‘new’ citizens but also on the part of the state. The premise of this article is that naturalisation is more than solely the admission of foreigners to the position and rights of citizenship, and it approaches naturalisation as a state practice that needs to be understood wi…
Reading Angharad Closs Stephens's The Persistence of Nationalism. From imagined communities to urban encounters
Afterword
After briefly discussing the ‘affective turn’ in citizenship studies, this afterword discusses the political mobilisation of affect to consider when, where and how affect may be connected to citizenship. It asks: What does it mean and do to speak of affective acts as acts of affective citizenship? I argue that the phrase ‘affective citizenship’ attaches affect to a very specific object: citizenship. Studying affective citizenship requires attenti…
The psychic life of policy
This article empirically grounds the ‘psychic life of power’ (Butler, 1997) by demonstrating the psychic form that power takes as immigrants or agents of the state make their way through the British ‘citizenisation’ policy – i.e. the ‘integration’ policy that requires noncitizens to acquire ‘citizen-like’ skills and values in view of seeking citizenship or other statuses (e.g. settlement). The framing argument is that an ambivalent relationship b…
On (Not) Speaking English
This article examines the colonial legacies shaping current language requirements for immigrants applying for settlement or citizenship in Britain. The article argues that common sense understandings of 'national language' and monolingualism/multilingualism were developed in the context of imperial expansion, the legacies of which resonate today in a disdain for multilingualism and other Englishes conceived as hampering cohesion. Put simply, othe…
Migrant Belongings
This book traces the formation of Italian migrant belongings in Britain, and scrutinizes the identity narratives through which they are stabilized. A key theme of this study is the constitution of identity through both movement and attachment. The study follows the Italian identity project since 1975, when community leaders first raised concerns about 'the future of invisible immigrants'. The author uses the image of 'invisible immigrants' as the…
Uncertain citizenship
Uncertainty is central to the governance of citizenship, but in ways that erase, even deny, this uncertainty. Uncertain citizenship investigates this uncertainty from the unique vantage point of 'citizenisation' – twenty-first-century integration and naturalisation measures that make and unmake citizens and migrants, while indefinitely holding many applicants for citizenship in what Anne-Marie Fortier calls the waiting room of citizenship. Fortie…
Afterword
This afterword addresses four broad questions raised by this special issue: uncertainty as a mode of governance, the ontological politics of naturalisation, the citizen-noncitizen distinction, and performative (anxious) states. First, taking uncertainty as a mode of neoliberal governance as the starting point of analysis, this afterword invites the scrutiny of the ways in which the artifice and uncertainty of citizenship are concealed or rendered…
The speaking citizen
This article concerns contemporary common-sense politics around language, integration, and citizenship that pervade Western European countries, where language is at the basis of a new model of citizenship – jus linguarum. I situate jus linguarum as the product of two seemingly different logics: the logics of neoliberalism and the logics (and legacies) of colonialism. I argue that jus linguarum obscures the fact that ‘national language’ is a histo…
Sociology (20 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (12 obras) · Politics (12 obras) · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Citizenship (7 obras) · Anthropology (6 obras) · Art (6 obras)