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The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vital interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of diaspora studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent criticism that explores new directions. It also includes seminal essays that have been selected specifically for this collection, as well as one brand new paper. The volume presents:
- introductions to each section that situate each work within its historical, disciplinary, and theoretical contexts;
- essays grouped by key subject areas including religion, nation, citizenship, home and belonging, visual culture, and digital diasporas;
- writings by major figures including Robin Cohen, Homi K. Bhabha, Avtar Brah, Pnina Werbner, Floya Anthias, James Clifford, Paul Gilroy, and Salman Rushdie.
The Routledge Diaspora Studies Reader is a field-defining volume that presents an illuminating guide for established scholars and also those new to diaspora.
General Introduction
Klaus Stierstorfer and Janet Wilson
PART I ORIGINS
- Terms and Conceptions
Introduction
Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return
William Safran
Diasporas
James Clifford
Four Phases of Diaspora Studies
Robin Cohen
2). Religion and Diaspora
Introduction
Religion and Diaspora
Steven Vertovec
Conceptualizing Diaspora. The Preservation of Religious Identity in Foreign Parts, exemplified by Hindu Communities Outside India
Martin Baumann
PART II GEOPOLITICS
3) Nation and Diaspora
Introduction
DissemiNation
Homi Bhabha
The ‘Diaspora’ Diaspora
Rogers Brubaker
The Black Atlantic as Counterculture of Modernity
Paul Gilroy
4) Citizenship and the Transglobal
Introduction
Diasporic Citizenship: Contradictions and Possibilities for Canadian Literature
Lily Cho
Citizenship and identity: Living in diaspora in post-war Europe?
Yasemin Nuhoglu Soysal
Introduction to Narratives of Citizenship: Indigenous Diaspora People Unsettle the Nationstate.
Aloys N. M. Fleishman and Nancy van Styvendale
5) (Inter)national Policy and Diaspora
Introduction
Why Engage Diasporas?
Alan Gamlen
Migration, Information Technology and International Policy
Jennifer M. Brinkherhof
International Migration as a Tool in Development Policy: A Passing Phase?
Ronald Skeldon
PART III IDENTITIES
6) Subjectivity
Introduction
The Turn to Diaspora
Lily Cho
Diasporic Subjectivity as an Ethical Position
Dibyesh Anand
Diasporic Subjectivities
Colin Davis
7) Hybridity and Cultural Identity
Introduction
The Third Space: Interview with Jonathan Rutherford and Homi Bhabha
Homi Bhabha
New Hybridities, Old Concepts: The Limits of ‘Culture’
Floya Anthias
Hybridity
John Hutnyk
The Limits of Cultural Hybridity: On Ritual Monsters, Poetic License and Contested Postcolonial Purifications
Pnina Werbner
8) Intersectionality
Introduction
Evaluating ‘Diaspora’: Beyond Ethnicity?
Floya Anthias
Diaspora and Intersectionality
Avtar Brah
Impossible Desires. Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures
Gayatri Gopinath
Why Queer Diaspora?
Meg Wesling
IV CULTURAL PRODUCTION
- Diaspora Literature
- Diaspora and Visual Culture
- Home and Belonging
- Digital Diasporas
Introduction
Romance, Diaspora and Black Atlantic Literature
Goyal Yogita
The Postcolonial Novel and Diaspora
Yoon Sun Lee
Introduction
Diaspora Culture and the Dialogic Imagination: The Aesthetics of Black Independent Film in Britain
Kobena Mercer
Situating Accented Cinema
Hamid Naficy
Speaking in Tongues, Ang Lee, Accented Cinema, Hollywood?
Song Hwee Lim
V COMMUNITY
Introduction
Imaginary Homelands
Salman Rushdie
Being Not-At-Home: A Conceptual Discussion
Jane Mummery
Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities
Avtar Brah
Solid Liquid and Ductile: Changing Notions of Homeland and Home in Diaspora Studies
Robin Cohen
Introduction
The Immigrant Worlds’ Digital Harbors: An Introduction
Andoni Alonso and Pedro J. Oiarzabal
Internet, Place, and Public Sphere in Diaspora Communities
Angel Adams Parham
From Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace and Citizenship
Victoria Bernal
Biography
Klaus Stierstorfer is Chair of British Studies at the University of Muenster, Germany.
Janet Wilson is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies and Director of Research in the School of the Arts at the University of Northampton, UK.
