Diasporas: concepts, intersections, identities / edited by Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlin

Introduction.. Part I: Concepts and Theories.. 1. Exile.. 2. Home and memory.. 3. Slavery and the Black Atlantic.. 4. Migration.. 5. Transnationalism.. 6. Nation, ethnicity and community.. 7. Multiculturalism and citizenship.. 8. Postcoloniality.. 9. Hybridity.. 10. Cosmopolitanism.. 11. Social identities and creolization.. 12. Complex diasporas.. 13. Space and movement .. Part II: Intersections.. 14. Diasporas and economies.. 15. Diasporas and politics.. 16. Diasporas, conflict and security.. 17. Diasporas and development.. 18. Diasporas and cities.. 19. Diasporas, race and difference.. 20. Diasporas and gender.. 21. Diasporas and sexuality.. 22. Diasporas and religion.. 23. Diasporas and language.. 24. Diasporas and material culture.. 25. Diasporas, literature and literary studies.. 26. Diasporas and performance.. 27. Diasporas, film and cinema.. 28. Diasporas and media.. 29. Diasporas and cyberspace.. Part III: Empirical and Metaphorical Diasporas.. 30. South/North relations in the Americas.. 31. Movements between 'White' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States.. 32. The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century.. 33. The Iranian diaspora in the West.. 34. How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan .. 35. Migrations within China.. 36. Beyond Tibet.. 37. Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: Sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East.. 38. Muslim travellers: Home, the ummah and British-Pakistanis.. 39. Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia.. 40. Diasporic creativity: Refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service.. 41. Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?.. 42. Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe.. 43. Diasporic readers and the location of reception .. 44. Jews as Rooted Cosmopolitans: The End of Diaspora?.. Conclusion: New Directions.. Biographies Bibliography Index

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, Intersections, Identities, addresses 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. eng