ISBN:
9780230503748
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (219 pages)
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DDC:
306.09747099999998
Keywords:
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Abstract:
This book focuses on American society as a transglobal nation and examines the temporal dimension of diasporic incorporation in New York City. It argues that immigrant neighbourhoods are faced not only with issues of economic and political integration, but also are engaged in a sublime and relentless effort of harmonizing the cultural rhythms of their daily life with the hegemonic temporality of mainstream society. Although much energy has been spent in explaining the segregated or ghettoized space of ethnic communities, there is, in contrast, a dearth of data on the subalternization, genealogy, and inscription of minoritized temporalities in the structural and interactional organization of the multicultural American City.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Transglobality and Diasporic Temporality -- The multiple temporal identities of the city -- Temporal disjuncture -- Temporal inequalities -- Multicultural definitions of the day, the month, and the year -- Crossing borders -- Hegemonic and subaltern temporalities -- Global time and the chronopolis -- The global chronopolis -- 2 Hegemonic and Subaltern Temporalities in New York -- Diasporization as hegemonization -- The day and the week in the civil calendar -- The peak day of the civil week -- The civil Sunday in New York State: The blue laws -- The blue laws as boundaries -- The blue laws as a system of practice -- The transglobalization of local temporalities -- 3 The Jewish Chronopolis and "Temporal Identity" Politics -- Temporal identity politics -- Diasporization as subalternization -- The genealogical formation of the subalternity of the Jewish Sabbath -- Deminoritizing the Sabbath: Inward change -- Deminoritizing the Sabbath: Outward change -- The day of preparation -- Temporal substitution -- Hybrid temporality, or mixed time -- The globalization of the Sabbath -- 4 The Muslim Chronopolis and Diasporic Temporality -- Friday and the structure of the Islamic week -- The "day" in the Muslim calendar -- The Americanization of the Islamic week -- The Muslim temporal enclave -- The transglobal chronopolis -- 5 Subaltern and Hegemonic Holidays -- Diasporic temporal practices -- Participation in mainstream and ethnic holidays -- Ethnic holidays as markers of identity -- Business and diasporic holidays -- Ethnic holidays and school closing -- Ethnic holidays and alternate-side-of-the-street parking regulations -- Subaltern citizens and hegemonic holidays -- Appropriation of ethnic holidays by the mainstream -- Transnational temporality.
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