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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 studiesA 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on Contributors ix1 Introduction - Diaspora and Transnationalism: Scapes, Scales, and Scopes 1Ato Quayson and Girish DaswaniPart I Transnationalism and Diaspora Through the Disciplines 272 The Anthropology of Transnationalism and Diaspora 29Girish Daswani3 Communication and Media Studies 54Julian Murphet4 Diaspora, Transnationalism, and Issues in Contemporary Politics 68Garrett Wallace Brown5 Diaspora and Transnationalism in Urban Studies 88Ayona Datta6 Migration and Transnational Studies: Between Simultaneity and Rupture 106Pnina Werbner7 Religion, Religions, and Diaspora 125Seán McLoughlin8 Postcolonialism and the Diasporic Imaginary 139Ato QuaysonPart II Backgrounds and Perspectives 1619 Slavery, Indentured Labor, and the Making of a Transnational World 163Emmanuel Akyeampong10 When the Diaspora Returns Home: Ambivalent Encounters with the Ethnic Homeland 172Takeyuki Tsuda11 Interracial Sex and the Making of Empire 190Carina Ray12 Istanbul as a Cosmopolitan City: Myths and Realities 212Edhem EldemPart III The Aesthetics of Transnationalism and Diaspora 23113 The Anxieties of "New" Indian Modernity: Globalization, Diaspora, and Bollywood 233Jigna Desai and Rani Neutill14 West African Video-Movies and Their Transnational Imaginaries 249Carmela Garritano15 The European Salsa Congress: Music and Dance in Transnational Circuits 263Ananya Jahanara KabirPart IV Overviews and Case Studies 27716 Gender and Identity in Oral Histories of Elderly Russian Jewish Migrant...
