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Chapter 2 Mobility, Globalization and the Policing of Citizenship and Belonging in the Twenty-first Century
ОглавлениеFrancis B. Nyamnjoh
This chapter on mobility, citizenship and decoloniality draws on my recent book titled #RhodesMustFall: Nibbling at Resilient Colonialism in South Africa (Nyamnjoh 2016). The book examines student protest movements in 2015 to have the statue of Cecil John Rhodes moved or removed from the University of Cape Town campus. It addresses questions such as: How do ideas and practices of mobility evolve, in a world of border protections and exclusionary practices? How do convivial forms of interaction counter such trends? How do they bond fictional insiders and perceived outsiders? How are race, citizenship and belonging constructed, deconstructed and reconstructed across the fluid yet sometimes oppressive frontiers that link ‘nation-states’? What can we all learn from the twenty-first-century nimble-footedness of humans, things and ideas? How do students of society make scholarship more convivial by factoring in human mobility as the norm in being human? How do ethnographers such as myself and my students (and some of you) decolonize the alienating tendencies that lead to the objectification of the people with whom we study by denying them the very essence of being – mobility?
