Diasporas, weddings and trajectories of ethnicity /
In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption and globalization, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities? Diasporas, Weddings and Trajectories of Ethnicity investigates the ways that Chinese Singaporeans shape their Chineseness through wedding rituals and artefact...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021]
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| Series: | Routledge research in race and ethnicity.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Reconceptualising Diasporic Space as Transdiasporic Space
- Configuring Transdiasporic Ethnicity, Ethnic Lifestyles and Ethnic Tastes
- Weddings as Sites of Ethnicity-Making
- Observation, Photography and Poetry
- A Methodological Framework of Creative Practice and Social Research
- A Visual Introduction to Singapore and Singaporean Chineseness
- Taste Performances: Making Ethnic Lifestyles Interactive
- Ethnic Taste and Aesthetic Dissonance
- Ethnic Taste, Everyday Commercial Activities and the Commercially Dominant Wedding Aesthetic
- Conclusion: Aesthetic Dissonance, Ethnic Hybridity and Economic Life-Paths
- Epilogue: Look on My Hands and See it There.