Citizens of Everywhere

Searching for Identity in the Age of Brexit
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-913368-07-4
Verlag: Haus Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 70 Seiten, Format (B × H): 113 mm x 178 mm, Gewicht: 76 g

Reihe: Haus Curiosities

In 1939, with Europe on the brink of war, Peter Gumbel’s grandparents fled Nazi Germany for England. In 2019, appalled by the result of the Brexit referendum and the ugliness it exposed in our politics and wider society, he became a citizen of Germany, the country that had persecuted his grandparents 80 years earlier. How had it come to this?

Through the powerful lens of his family’s story, Gumbel reflects on the resurgence of a nationalistic world view, the growing multiplicity of identity in our digital world, and the surprising reversal of roles as Germany has replaced Britain as the hope-bearer in Europe. Above all, he reminds us why tolerance and freedom of movement are still worth fighting for.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gumbel, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements // vii

Prologue: Mobility and National Identity in a Time of Plague // 1

1. Exile, or the Perilous Illusion of Belonging // 5

2. Role Reversal // 15

3. A New Home // 27

4. Questions of Nation, Identity, and Mobility // 33

5. Taking on Taboos // 49

6. Citizens of Everywhere // 57

Notes // 63

Über Autor(innen)

PETER GUMBEL is a Paris-based writer and editor. He has worked for US publications including the Wall Street Journal, Time and Fortune. He is the author of a best-selling book on French education, On achève bien les écoliers (They Shoot School Kids, Don’t They?), published by Grasset in 2010.