The Impact of Diasporas: Markers of Identity

ISBN-13: 9780367077792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str.

Joanna Story; Iain Walker

Opis

The markers of identity that define human groups are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of behaviour – and carefully nurtured between generations, but at other times they can be invisible, intangible, or unconscious. Such markers of identity also travel, and can be curated, distilled, or reworked in new lands and in new cultural environments; and they are central to the ties that bind dispersed, diasporic communities. This book brings together research on a range of scholarly approaches, periods, and places to better understand how markers of identity contribute to the impact of diasporas. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – The impact of diasporas: markers of identity  1. In the blood: the myth and reality of genetic markers of identity  2. Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity  3. Ancient objects with modern meanings: museums, volunteers, and the Anglo-Saxon ‘Staffordshire Hoard’ as a marker of twenty-first century regional identity  4. One of us? Negotiating multiple legal identities across the Viking diaspora  5. Shifting markers of identity in East London’s diasporic religious spaces  6. Markers of identity in Martinique: being French, black, Creole  7. Everyday statelessness in Italy: status, rights, and camps  8. Tracing diasporic identifications in Africa’s urban landscapes: evidence from Lusaka and Kampala  9. On the threshold of statelessness: Palestinian narratives of loss and erasure