A companion to diaspora and transnationalism /

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Imprint:	Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Description:	xvi, 584 pages ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Wiley Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 16 Wiley Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 16.
Subject:	Human beings -- Migrations. Human geography. Transnationalism. Emigration and immigration. Emigration and immigration. Human beings -- Migrations. Human geography. Transnationalism.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9333581

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Other authors / contributors:	Quayson, Ato.
ISBN:	9781405188265 (hardback) 140518826X (hardback) 9781118320846 (bro) 1118320840 (bro) 9781118320792 (wiley online)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 studies Contains newly commissioned essays by leading scholars, which will both influence the field, and stimulate further insight and discussion in the future Provides interdisciplinary perspectives on diaspora and transnationalism which link the two concepts in new and important ways Combines theoretical discussion with specific examples and case studies "--

Table of Contents:

Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes
Part I. Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines
2. The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora
3. Communication and Media Studies
4. Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary Politics
5. Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies
6. Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture
7. Religion, Religions, and Diaspora
8. Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary
Part II. Backgrounds and Perspectives
9. Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational World
10. When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland
11. Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire
12. Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities
Part III. The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora
13. The Anxieties of "New" Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood
14. West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries
15. The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits
Part IV. Overviews and Case Studies
16. Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian Jewish Migrants in the United States and Canada
17. The Transnational Life of Cheese
18. Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances
19. A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identity in India and Canada
20. Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa
21. Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London
22. Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu
23. Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and Hong Kong
24. Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican Non-Migrants
25. The Scales of Justice: Reflections on Representation and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame
26. Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 BCE to 10 CE
27. Parts and Labor: The Commodification of the Human Body
28. Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians of France
29. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam
30. Religions of the African Diaspora
31. Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
32. The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore
Index

A companion to diaspora and transnationalism /

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