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"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-ran...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Quayson, Ato
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Blackwell, [2013]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Wiley Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 16.
Subjects:
Human beings > Migrations.
Human geography.
Transnationalism.
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and Immigration
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales and Scopes / Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani. I: Transnationalism and Diaspora through the Disciplines
  • 2. The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora / Girish Daswani
  • 3. Communication and Media Studies / Julian Murphet
  • 4. Diaspora, Transnationalism and Issues in Contemporary Politics / Garrett Wallace Brown
  • 5. Diaspora and Transnationalism In Urban Studies / Ayona Datta
  • 6. Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture / Pnina Werbner
  • 7. Religion, Religions and Diaspora / Sean McLoughlin
  • 8. Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary / Ato Quayson. II: Backgrounds and Perspectives.
  • 9. Slavery, Indentured Labor and the Making of a Transnational World / Emmanuel Akyeampong
  • 10. When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland / Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda
  • 11. Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire / Carina Ray
  • 12. Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities / Edhem Eldem. III: The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora. 13. The Anxieties of New Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood / Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill
  • 14. West African Video-Movies and their Transnational Imaginaries / Carmela Garritano
  • 15. The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits / Ananya Jahanara Kabir
  • IV: Overviews and Case Studies
  • 16. Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Russian Jewish Elderly Migrants in the United States and Canada / Anna Shternshis
  • 17. The Transnational Life of Cheese / Ken MacDonald
  • 18. Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances / Anna Lindley
  • 19. Tibetan economy and identity in India and Canada / Timm Lau
  • 20. Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa / Wisdom J. Tettey
  • 21. Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London / Michelle Obeid
  • 22. Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu / Maggie Cummings
  • 23. Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and Hong Kong / Rajeev S. Patke
  • 24. Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican Nonmigrants / Hilary Parsons Dick
  • 25. The Scales of Justice: Reflections on Representation and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame / Kevin O'Neill
  • 26. Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 BCE to 10 CE / Rachel Mairs
  • 27. Parts and Labor: The Commodification of the Human Body / Monir Moniruzzaman
  • 28. Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians of France / Hakem Rustom
  • 29. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam / Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Barghouthi
  • 30. Religions of the African Diaspora / Paul Christopher Johnson
  • 31. Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana / Ann Reed
  • 32. The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore / T.T. Sreekumar.