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‘Diaspora & Hybridity deals with those theoretical issues which concern social theory and social change in the new millennium. The volume provides a refreshing, critical and illuminating analysis of concepts of diaspora and hybridity and their impact on multi-ethnic and multi-cultural societies’ — Dr Rohit Barot, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol. What do we mean by ‘diaspora’ and ‘hybridityȉ? Why are they pivotal concepts in contemporary debates on race, culture and society? This book is an exhaustive, politically inflected, assessment of the key debates on diaspora and hybridity. It relates the topics to contemporary social struggles and cultural contexts, providing the reader with a framework to evaluate and displace the key ideological arguments, theories and narratives deployed in culturalist academic circles today. The authors demonstrate how diaspora and hybridity serve as problematic tools, cutting across traditional boundaries of nations and groups, where trans-national spaces for a range of contested cultural, political and economic outcomes might arise. Wide ranging, richly illustrated and challenging, it will be of interest to students of cultural studies, sociology, ethnicity and nationalism.
Cultural Configurations of Diaspora
Cultural Configurations of Diaspora
They bear upon them the traces of the particular cultures, traditions, languages and histories by which they were shaped. The difference is that they are not and will never be unified in the old sense, because they are irrevocably the product of several interlocking histories and cultures, belong at one and the same time to several ‘homes’. (Hall 1990: 310)
Our contention is that the understanding of diaspora privileges a place of ‘origin’, that is of an unchanging and stable nature, whereas the term ‘Transl-Asia’ is intended to priortize the notion of space. (Kaur and Kalra 1996: 223)
The political and economic implications of diasporic activity revolve around, under, in-between and sometimes through an overarching structure that cannot be ignored ...
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