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A companion to diaspora and transnationalism /
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 c...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, NJ :
Wiley-Blackwell,
[2013]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Blackwell companions in cultural studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.