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The chapters in this book explore the cultural and social significance of diasporic memorialisation done in reference to Partition, as it overlaps with the commemoration of key historical moments of change for the South Asian diaspora.
List of contents
Introduction - Partition and the South Asian diaspora: exploring (inherited) memories and creative practices of remembering
1. Partition at 75: reflections on migrant memories in the British South Asian diaspora
2. Strains of friendship: post-partition r¿gad¿r¿ music publics in London
3. Remembering partition in diaspora films
4. Bangladesh independence in migrant memories and futures: from commemoration to narrativisation of 1971 in British Bangladeshi diaspora
5. The legacy of loss: a contemporary take on the Bengal partition of 1947 through the lens of art
6. London's little histories of the Sikhs: Rav Singh in conversation
About the author
Jasmine Hornabrook is a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield. She has conducted extensive ethnographic and collaborative arts-based research with South Asian diasporic groups around England and multi-sited fieldwork in South Asia. Jasmine's research interests include migration, music, transnationalism, religion and memory in British South Asian diasporas.
Clelia Clini is a Cultural Ethnographer and Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Media and Culture at London Metropolitan University. Her research interests include postcolonial migration, memory and cultural heritage; South Asian (diasporic) cinemas and literature. Clelia is currently working on a project on the British Sikh response to the 2020-2021 Indian farmers protest.
Paul Nataraj is Visiting Fellow at Loughborough University. His research interests include South Asian diaspora, sound, memory and sonic materiality. His sound art practice also explores these areas of interest. He has made work for the British Textile Biennale, exhibited at the Kochi Biennale 2022 and has recently been part of the UK national touring show, Jerwood Survey III.
Emily Keightley is Professor of Media and Memory Studies at Loughborough University. Emily's main research interest is memory, time and their mediation in everyday life. She is particularly concerned with the role of media in the relationship between individual, social and cultural memory. Her recent work has focused on the relationship between migration, identity and memory.
