Diasporas
Subtitle: concepts, intersections, identities
By: edited by Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlin
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781842779477; 9781842779484; 9781848135390
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Social aspects; Diaspora
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts and theories. Exile  -- Martin Baumann ;; title: Home and memory  -- Femke Stock ;; title: Slavery and the Black Atlantic  -- David Richardson ;; title: Migration  -- Nicholas Van Hear ;; title: Transnationalism  -- Peggy Levitt ;; title: Nation, ethnicity and community  -- Gerd Baumann ;; title: Multiculturalism and citizenship  -- Tariq Modood ;; title: Postcoloniality  -- Graham Huggan ;; title: Hybridity  -- John Hutnyk ;; title: Cosmopolitanism  -- Steven Vertovec ;; title: Social identities and creolization  -- Robin Cohen ;; title: Complex diasporas  -- Pnina Werbner ;; title: Space and movement  -- Kim Knott; title: Intersections. Diasporas and economies  -- Claire Dwyer ;; title: Diasporas and politics  -- Peter Mandaville and Terrence Lyons ;; title: Diasporas, conflict and security  -- Simon Turner ;; title: Diasporas and development  -- Ben Page and Claire Mercer ;; title: Diasporas and cities  -- John Eade ;; title: Diasporas, race and difference  -- Claire Alexander ;; title: Diasporas and gender  -- Nadje Al-Ali ;; title: Diasporas and sexuality  -- Kira Kosnick ;; title: Diasporas and religion  -- Manuel Vasquez ;; title: Diasporas and language  -- Jaine Beswick ;; title: Diasporas and material culture  -- Philip Crang ;; title: Diasporas, literature and literary studies  -- Ananya Jahanara Kabir ;; title: Diasporas and performance  -- Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo ;; title: Diasporas, film and cinema  -- Daniela Berghahn ;; title: Diasporas and media  -- Karim H. Karim ;; title: Diasporas and cyberspace  -- Victoria Bernal; title: Empirical and metaphorical diasporas. South -- North relations in the Americas / -- Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick and Tricia Vandekooy ;; title: Movements between 'White' Europe and America :; title: Greek migration to the United States  -- Anastasia Christou and Russell King ;; title: The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century  -- Larissa Remmenick ;; title: The Iranian diaspora in the West  -- Sanaz Raji ;; title: How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan  -- Jeffrey Lesser ;; title: Migrations within China  -- Flemming Christiansen ;; title: Beyond Tibet  -- Dibyesh Anand ;; title: Sacred journeys, diasporic lives :; title: Sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East  -- Mark Johnson ... [et al.] ;; title: Muslim travelers :; title: home, the ummah and British-Pakistanis  -- Seán McLoughlin ;; title: Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia  -- Sara Wills ;; title: Diasporic creativity :; title: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service  -- Marie Gillespie ;; title: Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?'  -- Ato Quayson ;; title: Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe  -- Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Nadia Kiwan and Marie-Pierre Gibert ;; title: Diasporic readers and the location of reception  -- James Procter ;; title: Jews as rooted cosmopolitans :; title: the end of diaspora?  -- David Shneer and Caryn Aviv ;; title: New directions -- Seán McLoughlin and Kim Knott.