ISBN:
9781848135390
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (331 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Lesser, Jeffrey Diasporas : Concepts, Intersections, Identities
DDC:
304.8
Keywords:
Electronic books. -- local
;
Human geography
Abstract:
Charts the ways in which global population movements have been seen through the lens of 'diaspora'
Abstract:
Intro -- About the editors -- Acknowledgements -- Map -- Introduction -- Diasporic connections -- diasporas scholarship -- Diasporas, migration and identities: a research programme -- Migration and diasporas: global and regional statistics -- Outlining the book -- PART ONE: Concepts and theories -- Figure 1 Diasporas wreath, Elmina Castle, Ghana -- 1 | Exile -- General meaning of exile -- Exile - historical coinage -- Diaspora as a neologism -- Diaspora as part of a soteriological scheme -- Ensuing adoption of diaspora -- Varied connotations of exile -- Further reading -- 2 | Home and memory -- Further reading -- 3 | Slavery and the black Atlantic -- Further reading -- 4 | Migration -- Migration and diaspora formation -- Migration and the durability of diaspora -- Further reading -- 5 | Transnationalism -- A transnational optic -- Changing assumptions and expectations -- Further reading -- 6 | Nation, ethnicity and community -- Further reading -- 7 | Multiculturalism and citizenship -- The emergence of multiculturalist politics -- Civic multiculturalism -- Further reading -- 8 | Post-coloniality -- Further reading -- 9 | Hybridity -- Further reading -- 10 | Cosmopolitanism -- Attitude or orientation -- Practices or skills -- Abilities or competences -- Further reading -- 11 | Social identities and creolization -- Diaspora -- Creolization -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 12 | Complex diasporas -- The limits of the diaspora concept -- Complex diasporas -- The pluralization of the public sphere -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 13 | Space and movement -- Spatial theory and metaphor in diaspora studies -- Geographical movement and settlement -- Diasporic spatialities -- Diaspora space: place, dwelling and living together -- Further reading -- PART TWO: Intersections -- Figure 2 House Textile 1 -- 14 | Diasporas and economies -- Further reading
Abstract:
15 | Diasporas and politics -- Further reading -- 16 | Diasporas, conflict and security -- Migration and security -- Long-distance nationalism -- Transnationalism and peace-building -- Further reading -- 17 | Diasporas and development -- Why are development policy-makers interested in migration? -- Why does development studies privilege migration over diaspora? -- How might development studies benefit from taking diaspora studies more seriously? -- Further reading -- 18 | Diasporas and cities -- Global migration and the importance of cities -- Globalizing cities and cultural diversity -- Diasporas and contemporary British cities -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 19 | Diasporas, race and difference -- Race-ing diaspora -- Empirical and metaphorical diasporas -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 20 | Diasporas and gender -- Women's experiences -- The emphasis on difference -- Ethnicity, nation and citizenship -- Limitations of the performative nexus -- Further reading -- 21 | Diasporas and sexuality -- Eroticism, alliances or procreation? -- Sexuality and trans-state formations -- The implicit bias in migration studies -- The productivity of 'queer' -- Further reading -- 22 | Diasporas and religion -- Further reading -- 23 | Diasporas and language -- Further reading -- 24 | Diasporas and material culture -- Commodifying diaspora -- The stuff of diasporic homemaking -- Diasporic collections -- Further reading -- 25 | Diasporas, literature and literary studies -- Diaspora, trauma and literature -- Diaspora as the generator of cultural 'newness' -- Looking ahead -- Further reading -- 26 | Diasporas and performance -- Diaspora space -- Bodies -- Affect -- Further reading -- 27 | Diasporas, film and cinema -- Further reading -- 28 | Diasporas and media -- Further reading -- 29 | Diasporas and cyberspace -- Further reading
Abstract:
PART THREE: Empirical and metaphorical diasporas -- Figure 3 Cross-diasporic contact zones at the BBC's Bush House, 1940 -- 30 | South/North relations in the Americas -- Further reading -- 31 | Movements between 'white' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States -- The setting -- Greeks in America: two waves, and some return -- The evolving character of the diaspora -- Preserving diasporic identity -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 32 | The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Further reading -- 33 | The Iranian diaspora in the West -- Further reading -- 34 | How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan -- The big questions -- The story -- Further reading -- 35 | Migrations within China -- Further reading -- 36 | Beyond Tibet -- Where is 'beyond Tibet'? -- Refugee diaspora -- Preservation of culture -- Nationalism in exile -- Interactions with others -- Further reading -- 37 | Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East -- Overseas Filipino workers and transnational relations of reproduction -- Beyond 'maids to order': spiritual sojourns in sacred places -- Further reading -- 38 | Muslim travellers: homing desire, the umma and British-Pakistanis -- Diaspora consciousness, homing desires and religious identity -- Travelling Islam and the idea of the umma -- British-Pakistanis, diasporic predicaments and Islamic identities -- Further reading -- 39 | Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia -- Unsettling British identities in Australia -- Locations and negotiations -- Memory, place and change -- Further reading -- 40 | Diasporic creativity: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service -- From Empire Service to diasporic Overseas Service
Abstract:
'Talking to India' -- Caribbean voices -- Soviet voices, literary lives -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 41 | Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?' -- Colonial space-making -- East African Asians -- Further reading -- 42 | Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe -- North African and Malagasy diasporas -- Justin Vali -- Karim Dellali -- Youssef El-Mejjad -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- 43 | Diasporic readers and the location of reception -- Further reading -- 44 | Jews as rooted cosmopolitans: the end of diaspora? -- Further reading -- Conclusion: new directions -- Concluding Diasporas -- Leaving 'diaspora' for 'diaspora space' -- About the contributors -- Bibliography -- Index
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