Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities

ISBN-13: 9781842779484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str.

Kim Knott

Opis

Despite the increasing importance of the concept of "diaspora" and its widespread use in academic case studies and in the self-description of a number of minority communities and networks, the subject has received relatively little general scholarly treatment. "Diasporas: Concepts, "Intersections, "Identities, "addresses this lack by providing a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the political and cultural ideas and groups involved. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, the book contains examinations of major concepts and theories, including migration, ethnicity, and postcolonialism. It also provides introductions to selected key diasporas -- Jewish, Irish and African American among others -- as well as discussions of diaspora in relation to a range of important issues and processes, and explorations of new directions in research.

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Introduction - Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlin Part I: Concepts and Theories 1. Exile - Martin Baumann 2. Home and memory - Femke Stock 3. Slavery and the Black Atlantic - David Richardson 4. Migration - Nicholas Van Hear 5. Transnationalism - Peggy Levitt 6. Nation, ethnicity and community - Gerd Baumann 7. Multiculturalism and citizenship - Tariq Modood 8. Postcoloniality - Graham Huggan 9. Hybridity - John Hutnyk 10. Cosmopolitanism - Steven Vertovec 11. Social identities and creolization - Robin Cohen 12. Complex diasporas - Pnina Werbner 13. Space and movement - Kim Knott Part II: Intersections 14. Diasporas and economies - Claire Dwyer 15. Diasporas and politics - Peter Mandaville and Terrence Lyons 16. Diasporas, conflict and security - Simon Turner 17. Diasporas and development - Ben Page and Claire Mercer 18. Diasporas and cities - John Eade 19. Diasporas, race and difference - Claire Alexander 20. Diasporas and gender - Nadje Al-Ali 21. Diasporas and sexuality - Kira Kosnick 22. Diasporas and religion - Manuel Vasquez 23. Diasporas and language - Jaine Beswick 24. Diasporas and material culture - Philip Crang 25. Diasporas, literature and literary studies - Ananya Jahanara Kabir 26. Diasporas and performance - Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo 27. Diasporas, film and cinema - Daniela Berghahn 28. Diasporas and media - Karim H. Karim 29. Diasporas and cyberspace - Victoria Bernal Part III: Empirical and Metaphorical Diasporas 30. South/North relations in the Americas - Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick and Tricia Vandekooy 31. Movements between 'White' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States - Anastasia Christou and Russell King 32. The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century - Larissa Remmenick 33. The Iranian diaspora in the West - Sanaz Raji 34. How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan - Jeffrey Lesser 35. Migrations within China - Flemming Christiansen 36. Beyond Tibet - Dibyesh Anand 37. 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 Werbner 38. Muslim travellers: Home, the ummah and British-Pakistanis - Seán McLoughlin 39. Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia - Sara Wills 40. Diasporic creativity: Refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service - Marie Gillespie 41. Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?' - Ato Quayson 42. Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe - Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Nadia Kiwan and Marie-Pierre Gibert 43. Diasporic readers and the location of reception - James Procter 44. Jews as Rooted Cosmopolitans: The End of Diaspora? - David Shneer and Caryn Aviv Conclusion: New Directions - Seán McLoughlin and Kim Knott