A companion to diaspora and transnationalism / edited by Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quayson, Ato.

Daswani, Girish.

Series:

Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

Wiley Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human beings--Migrations.

Human beings.

Human geography.

Transnationalism.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (602 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, England : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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-ranging collection which reviews the most significant developments and provides valuable insights into current key debates in transnational and diaspora studiesContains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further ins

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes; Conceptual Categories; The Study of Diasporas and Diaspora Studies; Dispersals and Transnationalism; Transnationalism and the Question of the Nation-State; Nostalgia, Moral Imagination, and Ethics; Organization of the Book; Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Transnationalism and Diaspora through the Disciplines; Chapter 2: The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora; The "Trans-" and the "Nation" of Anthropology

Rethinking Cultural Difference through Multiple ConnectionsDisentangling Transnationalism from Globalization; Diaspora and Transnationalism; Diasporas, Homeland, and Place-Making; Citizenship and Political Subjectivity; Refugees and Asylum-Seekers; Traveling Suitcase Trade; The Home and Transnational Kinship; Transnational Religions and Religious Diasporas; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 3: Communication and Media Studies; Historical Tectonics; Costs of Representation; Demographies of the New Media; References

Chapter 4: Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary PoliticsRelating Diaspora and Transnationalism to the Study of Politics; Identity and the Boundaries of Political Citizenship; The Political Mobilization of Diaspora and Transnational Groups; Transnational Groups as Non-State and Kin-State Political Actors; Globalization, Political Community, and Emerging Cosmopolitan Identities; References; Chapter 5: Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies; Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Urban Studies; Transnationalism from Above and Below; Transnational Urbanism

Cities as Places of Origin/DepartureCities as Places of Destination/Settlement; Cities as Places of "Return"; Cities as Places of Transit/Life-Cycle Cities; Translocal Cities; Material, Visual, and Embodied Spaces of Translocal Cities; Conclusions: An Urban Diaspora?; References; Chapter 6: Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture; Introduction: "You Can Never Return Home"; Pakistani Myths of Return and Arrival; Virtuous Citizens and Mediated Ruptures: Virtual Illusios of the Social Field; Migration "Guilt" and "Shame," "Pity" and "Sacrifice"

Transnational Migration as a Cultural Movement: Aesthetics, Ritual, and Moral InscriptionsConclusion: Towards a Critical Transnationalism; References; Chapter 7: Religion, Religions, and Diaspora; Religion, Diaspora Consciousness, and the Reinvention of Tradition; Religious Organizations, Ethnic Distinctiveness, and Hostland Incorporation; Transnational Migrants and the Global Circulation of Religions; Re-Mapping Diasporic and Transnational Religion: A Locative Approach; Some Future Developments; References; Chapter 8: Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary

Methodological Nationalism and the Challenge of Mobility

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 5, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118320846

1118320840

9781118320792

1118320794

9781118320648

1118320646

9781118320761

111832076X

OCLC:

853362683