Diasporas Concepts, Intersections, Identities

by Knott, Kim; McLoughlin, Sean

• ISBN13: 9781842779484
• ISBN10: 1842779486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: ZED BOOKS

Summary

Despite the increasing importance of the concept of 'diaspora' and its widespread use in academic case studies and in the self-description of a number of minority communities and networks, the subject has received relatively little general scholarly treatment.Diasporas: Concepts, Identities, Intersectionsaddresses this lack by providing a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the political and cultural ideas and groups involved. Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, the book contains examinations of major concepts and theories, including migration, ethnicity and postcolonialism. It also provides introductions to selected key diasporas -- Jewish, Irish and African American among others -- as well as discussions of diaspora in relation to a range of important issues and processes, and explorations of new directions in research.

Author Biography

Kim Knott is Director of the AHRC "Diasporas, Migration and Identities" Programme (a £6.3 million investment), overseeing some fifty small and large projects, workshops and networks. She combines this with her role as Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leeds where she continues to manage her own research projects, to teach research methods and to supervise student projects on religious diasporic communities, and religion, space and locality. Her first book was on what would now be called the "Hindu diaspora" in Britain (1986); her most recent on is The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis (2005). Her work has included articles over many years on migration, ethnicity, identity and religion, and more recently space and place. She has good contacts with scholars internationally as a result of her program directorship and roles in the International Association for the History of Religions and European Association for the Study of Religions. http://www.diasporas.ac.uk/Kim_Knott.htm; http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/staff/kim_knott.htm

 

Sean McLoughlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Leeds working in the fields of Islamic studies and anthropology of religion, and teaching on Muslims, multiculturalism and citizenship. He is author of the forthcoming book, Representing Muslims: Religion, Ethnicity and the Politics of Identity (Pluto Press, 2007) and co-editor (with J. Cesari) of European Muslims and the Secular State (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005) and many articles on British Muslims, Islam in Europe, and South Asian studies. His recent article on Migration, diaspora and transnationalism: transformations of religion and culture in a globalizing age is the final chapter in the Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion. He is Principal Investigator of the AHRC network, From Diaspora to Multi-Locality: Writing British Asian Cities, and co-convenor of the Muslims in Britain Research Network. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/trs/staff/sean_mcloughlin.htm

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Map	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Concepts and theories
Exile	p. 19
Home and memory	p. 24
Slavery and the black Atlantic	p. 29
Migration	p. 34
Transnationalism	p. 39
Nation, ethnicity and community	p. 45
Multiculturalism and citizenship	p. 50
Post-coloniality	p. 55
Hybridity	p. 59
Cosmopolitanism	p. 63
Social identities and creolization	p. 69
Complex diasporas	p. 74
Space and movement	p. 79
Intersections
Diasporas and economies	p. 87
Diasporas and politics	p. 91
Diasporas, conflict and security	p. 97
Diasporas and development	p. 102
Diasporas and cities	p. 107
Diasporas, race and difference	p. 112
Diasporas and gender	p. 118
Diasporas and sexuality	p. 123
Diasporas and religion	p. 128
Diasporas and language	p. 134
Diasporas and material culture	p. 139
Diasporas, literature and literary studies	p. 145
Diasporas and performance	p. 151
Diasporas, film and cinema	p. 157
Diasporas and media	p. 162
Diasporas and cyberspace	p. 167
Empirical and metaphorical diasporas
South/North relations in the Americas	p. 175
Movements between 'white' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States	p. 181
The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century	p. 187
The Iranian diaspora in the West	p. 193
How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan	p. 198
Migrations within China	p. 204
Beyond Tibet	p. 211
Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East	p. 217
Muslim travellers: homing desire, the umma and British-Pakistanis	p. 223
Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia	p. 230
Diasporic creativity: refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service	p. 236
Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?'	p. 243
Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe	p. 249
Diasporic readers and the location of reception	p. 256
Jews as rooted cosmopolitans: the end of diaspora?	p. 263
Conclusion: new directions	p. 269
About the contributors	p. 274
Bibliography	p. 278
Index	p. 311
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