Movers and Makers: Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux

ISBN-13: 9781472589224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Parminder Bhachu

Opis

There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium.

Spis treści

 Introduction  1. Maker origins and migrant creativity  2. Kuljit Bhamra: artisanal music maker and democratizer of musical knowledge  3. A diasporic Gaudi: Bhajan Hunjan - architectural artist with material daring  4. Amarjit Kalsi: lyrical architect, virtuoso draughtsman  5. Jasleen Kaur: jugaadhan and border-crossing catalyzer of dialogue  6. Fearless sound shaper, Rishi Rich, and path-breaking singer-songwriter, Jay Sean  7. Multi-faceted makers and defiant disruptors of the artistic status quo: the Singh Twins  8. Wishing the best for all: Suneet Singh Tuli – computing power for the billions  9. Jatinder Verma: cartographer of politicized performance: mapping a landscape of dreams  10. Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee: navigator of Newton’s ocean of truth  Conclusion. The immigrant imperative: sharing and contributing for the common good

O autorze

Parminder Bhachu is the author of both Twice Migrants and Dangerous Designs and also co-editor of both Enterprising Women and Immigration and Entrepreneurship. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA. She has held a Henry R. Luce Professorship in Cultural Identities and Global Processes and has been a Director of Women’s Studies. She has lived in multiple sites in East Africa, the United Kingdom, and on both the east and west coasts of the United States.