ISBN:
140518826X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (2312 KB, 600 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Einwanderung
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Internationale Migration
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Transnationale Politik
Abstract:
"A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism offers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways. A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current key debates in transnational and diaspora studies Contains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further insight and discussion in the future Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on diaspora and transnationalism which link the two concepts in new and important ways Combines theoretical discussion with specific examples and case studies "--
Abstract:
A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalismoffers a ground-breaking combined discussion of the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Newly commissioned essays by leading scholars provide interdisciplinary perspectives that link together the concepts in new and important ways.A wide-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current key debates in transnational and diaspora studiesContains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further insight and discussion in the futureProvides interdisciplinary perspectives on diaspora and transnationalism which link the two concepts in new and important waysCombines theoretical discussion with specific examples and case studies Ato Quaysonis Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Relocating Postcolonialism(with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002); Calibrations: Reading for the Social(2003);Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation(2006); and the 2-volume The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature(2012).Girish Daswaniis an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is also affiliated with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto as well as the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes; Conceptual Categories; The Study of Diasporas and Diaspora Studies; Dispersals and Transnationalism; Transnationalism and the Question of the Nation-State; Nostalgia, Moral Imagination, and Ethics; Organization of the Book; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Transnationalism and Diaspora through the Disciplines; Chapter 2: The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora; The "Trans-" and the "Nation" of Anthropology
Description / Table of Contents:
Rethinking Cultural Difference through Multiple ConnectionsDisentangling Transnationalism from Globalization; Diaspora and Transnationalism; Diasporas, Homeland, and Place-Making; Citizenship and Political Subjectivity; Refugees and Asylum-Seekers; Traveling Suitcase Trade; The Home and Transnational Kinship; Transnational Religions and Religious Diasporas; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Communication and Media Studies; Historical Tectonics; Costs of Representation; Demographies of the New Media; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 4: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary PoliticsRelating Diaspora and Transnationalism to the Study of Politics; Identity and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship; The Political Mobilization of Diaspora and Transnational Groups; Transnational Groups as Non-State and Kin-State Political Actors; Globalization, Political Community, and Emerging Cosmopolitan Identities; References; Chapter 5: Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies; Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Urban Studies; Transnationalism from Above and Below; Transnational Urbanism
Description / Table of Contents:
Cities as Places of Origin/DepartureCities as Places of Destination/Settlement; Cities as Places of "Return"; Cities as Places of Transit/Life-Cycle Cities; Translocal Cities; Material, Visual, and Embodied Spaces of Translocal Cities; Conclusions: An Urban Diaspora?; References; Chapter 6: Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture; Introduction: "You Can Never Return Home"; Pakistani Myths of Return and Arrival; Virtuous Citizens and Mediated Ruptures: Virtual Illusios of the Social Field; Migration "Guilt" and "Shame," "Pity" and "Sacrifice"
Description / Table of Contents:
Transnational Migration as a Cultural Movement: Aesthetics, Ritual, and Moral InscriptionsConclusion: Towards a Critical Transnationalism; References; Chapter 7: Religion, Religions, and Diaspora; Religion, Diaspora Consciousness, and the Reinvention of Tradition; Religious Organizations, Ethnic Distinctiveness, and Hostland Incorporation; Transnational Migrants and the Global Circulation of Religions; Re-Mapping Diasporic and Transnational Religion: A Locative Approach; Some Future Developments; References; Chapter 8: Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary
Description / Table of Contents:
Methodological Nationalism and the Challenge of Mobility
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.1002/9781118320792
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