Introduction: Why contesting recognition? / Janice McLaughlin, Peter Phillimore and Diane Richardson
Belonging and the politics of belonging / Nira Yuval-Davis
Disability and the pitfalls of recognition / Jackie Leach Scully
'Normal people' : recognition and the middle classes / Steph Lawler
Biological citizenship in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Ruth P Fitzgerald
From the stranger to 'the other' : the politics of cosmopolitan Beirut / Steven Seidman
Naming ourselves : recognising racism and Mestizaje in Mexico / Mónica G. Moreno Figueroa
Lesbian and gay parents' sexual citizenship : recognition, belonging and (re)classification / Yvette Taylor
The paradox of recognition : success or stigma for children with learning disabilities / Rayna Rapp and Faye Ginsburg
'The rush to (East) German history' : recognising memory and belonging / Anselma Gallinat.
Contesting recognition : culture, identity and citizenship. ISBN 9780230280502. Published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.