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 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

Autorentext

Ato Quayson is Inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies and Professor of English at the University of Toronto. His publications include Relocating Postcolonialism (with David Theo Goldberg, Blackwell, 2002); Calibrations: Reading for the Social (2003); Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation (2006); and the 2-volume The Cambridge History of Postcolonial Literature (2012).

Girish Daswani is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He is also affiliated with the Department for the Study of Religion and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto as well as the Centre for Ethnography at University of Toronto Scarborough.

Zusammenfassung

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

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

1 Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes,
Scales, and Scopes 1

Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani

Part I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines
27

2 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29

Girish Daswani

3 Communication and Media Studies 54

Julian Murphet

4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary
Politics 68

Garrett Wallace Brown

5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88

Ayona Datta

6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and
Rupture 106

Pnina Werbner

7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125

Seán McLoughlin

8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139

Ato Quayson

Part II Backgrounds and Perspectives 161

9 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational
World 163

Emmanuel Akyeampong

10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with
the Ethnic Homeland 172

Takeyuki Tsuda

11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190

Carina Ray

12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities
212

Edhem Eldem

Part III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora
231

13 The Anxieties of "New" Indian Modernity:
Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233

Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill

14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries
249

Carmela Garritano

15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational
Circuits 263

Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Part IV Overviews and Case Studies 277

16 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian
Jewish Migrants in the United States and Canada 279

Anna Shternshis

17 The Transnational Life of Cheese 293

Ken MacDonald

18 Diaspora and Transnational Perspectives on Remittances
316

Anna Lindley

19 A Diaspora Concept That Works: Tibetan Economy and Identity
in India and Canada 330

Timm Lau

20 Cell Phones and Transnationalism in Africa 346

Wisdom J. Tettey

21 Home-Making in the Diaspora: Bringing Palestine to London
366

Michelle Obeid

22 Imagining Transnational Futures in Vanuatu 381

Maggie Cummings

23 Global Cities and Transnational Circulations: Singapore and
Hong Kong 397

Rajeev S. Patke

24 Diaspora and Discourse: The Contrapuntal Lives of Mexican
Non-Migrants 412

Hilary Parsons Dick

25 The Scales of Justice: Refl ections on Representation and
Responsibility in a Transnational Frame 428

Kevin Lewis O'Neill

26 Greek Settler Communities in Central and South Asia, 323 bce
to 10 ce 443

Rachel Mairs

27 Parts and Labor: The Commodifi cation of the Human Body
455

Monir Moniruzzaman

28 Diaspora Activism and the Politics of Locality: The Armenians
of France 473

Hakem Al-Rustom

29 The Muslim Brotherhood and the Transnationalism of Islam
494

Meena Sharify-Funk and Ali Albarghouthi

30 Religions of the African Diaspora 509

Paul Christopher Johnson

31 Diaspora Tourism: The Heritage of Slavery in Ghana 524

Ann Reed

32 The Transnational Politics of the Techno-Class in Bangalore
539

T.T. Sreekumar

Index 556