Full Description
Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key intersecting agendas and themes, including political economy, security, race, gender, and material and electronic culture. Original case studies of contemporary as well as classical diasporas are featured, mapping new directions in research and testing the usefulness of diaspora for analyzing the complexity of transnational lives today.Diasporas is an essential text for anyone studying, working or interested in this increasingly vital subject.
Contents
Introduction - Kim Knott and Sean McLoughlinPart I: Concepts and Theories1. Exile - Martin Baumann2. Home and memory - Femke Stock3. Slavery and the Black Atlantic - David Richardson4. Migration - Nicholas Van Hear5. Transnationalism - Peggy Levitt6. Nation, ethnicity and community - Gerd Baumann7. Multiculturalism and citizenship - Tariq Modood8. Postcoloniality - Graham Huggan9. Hybridity - John Hutnyk10. Cosmopolitanism - Steven Vertovec11. Social identities and creolization - Robin Cohen12. Complex diasporas - Pnina Werbner13. Space and movement - Kim KnottPart II: Intersections14. Diasporas and economies - Claire Dwyer15. Diasporas and politics - Peter Mandaville and Terrence Lyons16. Diasporas, conflict and security - Simon Turner17. Diasporas and development - Ben Page and Claire Mercer18. Diasporas and cities - John Eade19. Diasporas, race and difference - Claire Alexander20. Diasporas and gender - Nadje Al-Ali21. Diasporas and sexuality - Kira Kosnick22. Diasporas and religion - Manuel Vasquez23. Diasporas and language - Jaine Beswick24. Diasporas and material culture - Philip Crang25. Diasporas, literature and literary studies - Ananya Jahanara Kabir26. Diasporas and performance - Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo27. Diasporas, film and cinema - Daniela Berghahn28. Diasporas and media - Karim H. Karim29. Diasporas and cyberspace - Victoria BernalPart III: Empirical and Metaphorical Diasporas30. South/North relations in the Americas - Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick and Tricia Vandekooy31. Movements between 'White' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States - Anastasia Christou and Russell King32. The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century - Larissa Remmenick33. The Iranian diaspora in the West - Sanaz Raji34. How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan - Jeffrey Lesser35. Migrations within China - Flemming Christiansen36. Beyond Tibet - Dibyesh Anand37. Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: Sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East - Mark Johnson, Claudia Liebelt, Deirdre McKay, Alicia Pingol and Pnina Werbner38. Muslim travellers: Home, the ummah and British-Pakistanis - Sean McLoughlin39. Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia - Sara Wills40. Diasporic creativity: Refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service - Marie Gillespie41. Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?' - Ato Quayson42. Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe - Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Nadia Kiwan and Marie-Pierre Gibert43. Diasporic readers and the location of reception - James Procter44. Jews as Rooted Cosmopolitans: The End of Diaspora? - David Shneer and Caryn AvivConclusion: New Directions - Sean McLoughlin and Kim Knott
