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Diasporas
Jeffrey Lesser | Homi Bhabha | Peter Mandaville | Terrance Lyons | Claire Dwyer | Manuel Vasquez | Jaine Beswick | Doctor Nadje Al-Ali | Karim H Karim | Doctor Daniela Berghahn | Ian Cook | Tariq Modood | Toshio Watanbe | Paul Gilroy | Doctor Larissa Remennick | Gerd Baumann | Professor Martin Baumann | David Richardson | Professor Robin Cohen | Ulirke Meinhof | Sara Wills | Professor Flemming Christiansen | Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick | Doctor Dibyesh Anand | Sanaz Raji | Anastasia Christou | Juan Flores | Madeleine Wong | Professor Russell King | Professor Pnina Werbner | Susheila Nasta | Doctor James Procter | Helen Gilbert | Victoria Bernal | Avtar Brah | Khachig Tololyan | Peggy Levitt | Marie Gillespie | Philip Crang | Mark Johnson | Nicholas Van Hear | Virinder Kalra | Graham Huggan | Steven Vertovec | Vijay Agnew | Doctor Simon Turner | Professor Kim Knott | Doctor Sean McLoughlin
(2010)
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Abstract
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. It also examines key intersecting agendas and themes, including political economy, security, race, gender, and material and electronic culture. Original case studies of contemporary as well as classical diasporas are featured, mapping new directions in research and testing the usefulness of diaspora for analyzing the complexity of transnational lives today.
Diasporas is an essential text for anyone studying, working or interested in this increasingly vital subject.
'Simultaneously panoramic and precise, this volume offers authoritative, inclusive, yet blessedly focused articles on the terms, concepts, and perspectives that collectively define the field of diaspora studies.'
Khachig Tölölyan, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
'As scholarly approaches to Diasporas develop a global profile and span a variety of disciplines, this book provides an incisive account of the state of the art.'
Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
'Bringing together an impressive array of distinguished interdisciplinary scholars with wide-ranging perspectives on the cultural and historical significance of contemporary diasporas worldwide, this book provides an essential companion to understanding the complex evolution of concepts of migration and identity and their vital impact on shaping the direction of public and academic debate today.'
Susheila Nasta, Open University
Kim Knott is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leeds and director of Diasporas, Migration and Identities. She has worked on South Asian religious diasporas, particularly British Hindus, and on migration, ethnicity and identity. In conjunction with government and voluntary sector partners she has researched issues of religious and ethnic diversity and representation. In The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis (2005) and later articles, she has developed a spatial methodology for researching places, bodies and organisations in which controversies occur about matters of sacred concern, whether religious, secular or postsecular.
Seán McLoughlin is senior lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds. Trained in the study of religion, Islam and anthropology, he is an expert on various aspects of South Asian heritage Muslims in Britain and has worked on a number of public projects, as well as giving invited lectures across Europe and in the United States. Co-editor of European Muslims and the Secular State, most recently he was principal investigator on an AHRC Diasporas' network, From Diaspora to Multi-Locality: Writing British-Asian Cities (2006-9).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| About the editors | i | ||
| Acknowledgements | viii | ||
| Map | ix | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Diasporic connections; diasporas scholarship | 1 | ||
| Diasporas, migration and identities: a research programme | 2 | ||
| Migration and diasporas: global and regional statistics | 5 | ||
| Outlining the book | 7 | ||
| PART ONE: Concepts and theories | 17 | ||
| Figure 1 Diasporas wreath, Elmina Castle, Ghana | 18 | ||
| 1 | Exile | 19 | ||
| General meaning of exile | 19 | ||
| Exile – historical coinage | 20 | ||
| Diaspora as a neologism | 20 | ||
| Diaspora as part of a soteriological scheme | 21 | ||
| Ensuing adoption of diaspora | 22 | ||
| Varied connotations of exile | 22 | ||
| Further reading | 23 | ||
| 2 | Home and memory | 24 | ||
| Further reading | 28 | ||
| 3 | Slavery and the black Atlantic | 29 | ||
| Further reading | 33 | ||
| 4 | Migration | 34 | ||
| Migration and diaspora formation | 34 | ||
| Migration and the durability of diaspora | 37 | ||
| Further reading | 38 | ||
| 5 | Transnationalism | 39 | ||
| A transnational optic | 39 | ||
| Changing assumptions and expectations | 41 | ||
| Further reading | 44 | ||
| 6 | Nation, ethnicity and community | 45 | ||
| Further reading | 49 | ||
| 7 | Multiculturalism and citizenship | 50 | ||
| The emergence of multiculturalist politics | 50 | ||
| Civic multiculturalism | 52 | ||
| Further reading | 54 | ||
| 8 | Post-coloniality | 55 | ||
| Further reading | 58 | ||
| 9 | Hybridity | 59 | ||
| Further reading | 62 | ||
| 10 | Cosmopolitanism | 63 | ||
| Attitude or orientation | 64 | ||
| Practices or skills | 64 | ||
| Abilities or competences | 66 | ||
| Further reading | 68 | ||
| 11 | Social identities and creolization | 69 | ||
| Diaspora | 70 | ||
| Creolization | 71 | ||
| Conclusion | 72 | ||
| Further reading | 73 | ||
| 12 | Complex diasporas | 74 | ||
| The limits of the diaspora concept | 74 | ||
| Complex diasporas | 75 | ||
| The pluralization of the public sphere | 76 | ||
| Conclusion | 77 | ||
| Further reading | 78 | ||
| 13 | Space and movement | 79 | ||
| Spatial theory and metaphor in diaspora studies | 79 | ||
| Geographical movement and settlement | 80 | ||
| Diasporic spatialities | 81 | ||
| Diaspora space: place, dwelling and living together | 82 | ||
| Further reading | 83 | ||
| PART TWO: Intersections | 85 | ||
| Figure 2 House Textile 1 | 86 | ||
| 14 | Diasporas and economies | 87 | ||
| Further reading | 90 | ||
| 15 | Diasporas and politics | 91 | ||
| Further reading | 96 | ||
| 16 | Diasporas, conflict and security | 97 | ||
| Migration and security | 97 | ||
| Long-distance nationalism | 99 | ||
| Transnationalism and peace-building | 100 | ||
| Further reading | 101 | ||
| 17 | Diasporas and development | 102 | ||
| Why are development policy-makers interested in migration? | 102 | ||
| Why does development studies privilege migration over diaspora? | 103 | ||
| How might development studies benefit from taking diaspora studies more seriously? | 104 | ||
| Further reading | 106 | ||
| 18 | Diasporas and cities | 107 | ||
| Global migration and the importance of cities | 107 | ||
| Globalizing cities and cultural diversity | 108 | ||
| Diasporas and contemporary British cities | 109 | ||
| Conclusion | 110 | ||
| Further reading | 111 | ||
| 19 | Diasporas, race and difference | 112 | ||
| Race-ing diaspora | 112 | ||
| Empirical and metaphorical diasporas | 114 | ||
| Conclusion | 116 | ||
| Further reading | 117 | ||
| 20 | Diasporas and gender | 118 | ||
| Women’s experiences | 118 | ||
| The emphasis on difference | 119 | ||
| Ethnicity, nation and citizenship | 120 | ||
| Limitations of the performative nexus | 121 | ||
| Further reading | 122 | ||
| 21 | Diasporas and sexuality | 123 | ||
| Eroticism, alliances or procreation? | 123 | ||
| Sexuality and trans-state formations | 123 | ||
| The implicit bias in migration studies | 125 | ||
| The productivity of ‘queer’ | 126 | ||
| Further reading | 127 | ||
| 22 | Diasporas and religion | 128 | ||
| Further reading | 132 | ||
| 23 | Diasporas and language | 134 | ||
| Further reading | 138 | ||
| 24 | Diasporas and material culture | 139 | ||
| Commodifying diaspora | 140 | ||
| The stuff of diasporic homemaking | 141 | ||
| Diasporic collections | 143 | ||
| Further reading | 144 | ||
| 25 | Diasporas, literature and literary studies | 145 | ||
| Diaspora, trauma and literature | 146 | ||
| Diaspora as the generator of cultural ‘newness’ | 147 | ||
| Looking ahead | 149 | ||
| Further reading | 150 | ||
| 26 | Diasporas and performance | 151 | ||
| Diaspora space | 152 | ||
| Bodies | 153 | ||
| Affect | 155 | ||
| Further reading | 156 | ||
| 27 | Diasporas, film and cinema | 157 | ||
| Further reading | 161 | ||
| 28 | Diasporas and media | 162 | ||
| Further reading | 166 | ||
| 29 | Diasporas and cyberspace | 167 | ||
| Further reading | 171 | ||
| PART THREE: Empirical and metaphorical diasporas | 173 | ||
| Figure 3 Cross-diasporic contact zones at the BBC’s Bush House, 1940 | 174 | ||
| 30 | South/North relations in the Americas | 175 | ||
| Further reading | 180 | ||
| 31 | Movements between ‘white’ Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States | 181 | ||
| The setting | 181 | ||
| Greeks in America: two waves, and some return | 182 | ||
| The evolving character of the diaspora | 183 | ||
| Preserving diasporic identity | 184 | ||
| Conclusion | 185 | ||
| Further reading | 186 | ||
| 32 | The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century | 187 | ||
| Further reading | 192 | ||
| 33 | The Iranian diaspora in the West | 193 | ||
| Further reading | 197 | ||
| 34 | How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan | 198 | ||
| The big questions | 198 | ||
| The story | 199 | ||
| Further reading | 203 | ||
| 35 | Migrations within China | 204 | ||
| Further reading | 210 | ||
| 36 | Beyond Tibet | 211 | ||
| Where is ‘beyond Tibet’? | 211 | ||
| Refugee diaspora | 212 | ||
| Preservation of culture | 213 | ||
| Nationalism in exile | 213 | ||
| Interactions with others | 214 | ||
| Further reading | 216 | ||
| 37 | Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East | 217 | ||
| Overseas Filipino workers and transnational relations of reproduction | 217 | ||
| Beyond ‘maids to order’: spiritual sojourns in sacred places | 218 | ||
| Further reading | 222 | ||
| 38 | Muslim travellers: homing desire, the umma and British-Pakistanis | 223 | ||
| Diaspora consciousness, homing desires and religious identity | 223 | ||
| Travelling Islam and the idea of the umma | 226 | ||
| British-Pakistanis, diasporic predicaments and Islamic identities | 227 | ||
| Further reading | 229 | ||
| 39 | Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia | 230 | ||
| Unsettling British identities in Australia | 230 | ||
| Locations and negotiations | 232 | ||
| Memory, place and change | 233 | ||
| Further reading | 235 | ||
| 40 | Diasporic creativity: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service | 236 | ||
| From Empire Service to diasporic Overseas Service | 236 | ||
| ‘Talking to India’ | 237 | ||
| Caribbean voices | 238 | ||
| Soviet voices, literary lives | 239 | ||
| Conclusion | 241 | ||
| Further reading | 241 | ||
| 41 | Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or ‘Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?’ | 243 | ||
| Colonial space-making | 245 | ||
| East African Asians | 245 | ||
| Further reading | 247 | ||
| 42 | Transnational musicians’ networks across Africa and Europe | 249 | ||
| North African and Malagasy diasporas | 250 | ||
| Justin Vali | 251 | ||
| Karim Dellali | 252 | ||
| Youssef El-Mejjad | 254 | ||
| Conclusion | 255 | ||
| Further reading | 255 | ||
| 43 | Diasporic readers and the location of reception | 256 | ||
| Further reading | 262 | ||
| 44 | Jews as rooted cosmopolitans: the end of diaspora? | 263 | ||
| Further reading | 268 | ||
| Conclusion: new directions | 269 | ||
| Concluding Diasporas | 269 | ||
| Leaving ‘diaspora’ for ‘diaspora space’ | 271 | ||
| About the contributors | 274 | ||
| Bibliography | 278 | ||
| Index | 311 |