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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.
Journeys of Whiteness
Journeys of Whiteness
Idling away the narcolepsy of a London Underground tube journey, we were struck by an advertisement for international phone calls pasted above our heads. It declared cheap rate calls with a prefix of the company name followed by the region in question: X-Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya), X-South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and a category that was simply addressed with a suffix to the company name: ‘X-max’. The latter included regions as far afield as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. There are two implications of this type of advertising. First, those who belong to the ‘max’ countries are not named in any way because they are the norm against which Africa and Asia can come into existence. ...
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