A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism - new book

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781118320648
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1118320646
Publishing year: 2013
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
600 Pages
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9781118320648

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Author: Ato Quayson; Girish Daswani
Title: Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies; A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; John Wiley & Sons
600 Pages
Publishing year: 2013-07-03
Language: English
139,99 € (DE)
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Notes on Contributors ix 1 Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes,Scales, and Scopes 1 Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani Part I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines27 2 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29 Girish Daswani 3 Communication and Media Studies 54 Julian Murphet 4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in ContemporaryPolitics 68 Garrett Wallace Brown 5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88 Ayona Datta 6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity andRupture 106 Pnina Werbner 7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125 Seán McLoughlin 8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139 Ato Quayson Part II Backgrounds and Perspectives 161 9 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a TransnationalWorld 163 Emmanuel Akyeampong 10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters withthe Ethnic Homeland 172 Takeyuki Tsuda 11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190 Carina Ray 12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities212 Edhem Eldem Part III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora231 13 The Anxieties of "New" Indian Modernity:Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233 Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill 14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries249 Carmela Garritano 15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in TransnationalCircuits 263 Ananya Jahanara Kabir Part IV Overviews and Case Studies 277 16 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly RussianJewish Migrants in the United States and Canada 279 Anna Shternshis 17 The Transnational Life of Cheese 293 Ken MacDonald 18 Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances316 Anna Lindley 19 A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identityin India and Canada 330 Timm Lau 20 Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa 346 Wisdom J. Tettey 21 Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London366 Michelle Obeid 22 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu 381 Maggie Cummings 23 Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore andHong Kong 397 Rajeev S. Patke 24 Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of MexicanNon-Migrants 412 Hilary Parsons Dick 25 The Scales of Justice: Refl ections on Representation andResponsibility in a Transnational Frame 428 Kevin Lewis O'Neill 26 Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 bceto 10 ce 443 Rachel Mairs 27 Parts and Labor: The Commodifi cation of the Human Body455 Monir Moniruzzaman 28 Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armeniansof France 473 Hakem Al-Rustom 29 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam494 Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Albarghouthi 30 Religions of the African Diaspora 509 Paul Christopher Johnson 31 Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana 524 Ann Reed 32 The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore539 T.T. Sreekumar Index 556