Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging

Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9783110408690
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Letteratura
• Subtopic: Critica letteraria

Diaspora studies has developed in recent years from disparate enquiries into diasporic phenomena in political science, anthropology, history, geography, and literary and cultural studies. Its emergence as a full-fledged transdisciplinary research field has been predicated to a large degree on an interest in questions of dispersal and mobility. Based on the proceedings of an international conference by the Marie Curie Initial Training Network CoHaB, this volume undertakes to shift the focus to phenomena of home-making and the articulation of a sense of belonging in diasporic contexts. Contributors from a broad range of disciplines discuss a variety of historical and geographical instances of diasporas, exploring the methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the subjects of 'home' and 'belonging'. Including an interview with Homi K. Bhabha on these subjects and the place of theory in diaspora studies as well as contributions by such central figures as Pnina Werbner and Ihab Hassan, the volume aims at offering a new prospectus of the range and potential of academic work on the cultural formations of diaspora.

Endnotes

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2	William Safran, “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return, ”Diaspora 1.1 (1991): 83–99.
3	Cohen, Global Diasporas, 4.
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5	James Clifford, “Diasporas, ”Cultural Anthropology 9.3 (1994): 302–338.
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8	Clifford, “Diasporas, ” 306.
9	Hall, “Cultural Identity and Diaspora, ” 244.
10	Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994): 2.
11	Arjun Appadurai, Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996): 48–65. See also Waltraud Kokot, “Culture and Space: Anthropological Approaches, ”Ethnoscripts 9.1 (2007): 15–18.
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16	Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora, 209.
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20	The interview was originally conducted at Schloss Wilkinghege, Münster, Germany, on September 22, 2013.
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25	Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture [1994] (London: Routledge, 2008): 28–56.
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27	The interview was held immediately after a colloquium with doctoral students of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging” (CoHaB), funded by the European Commission as part of the Marie Curie Actions under the Seventh Framework Programme FP7 – People. For information on the network, see <itn-cohab.eu>.
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31	Toni Morrison, quoted in Alan Riding, “Rap and Film at the Louvre? What’s Up With That?", New York Times (November 21, 2006) (acc. March 3, 2015).
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45	Brubaker, “The ‘Diaspora’ Diaspora, ” 11–12.
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49	Stuart Hall, “Introduction: Who Needs Identity?” inQuestions of Cultural Identity, ed. Stuart Hall and Paul du Gay (London: SAGE, 1996): 1–17, 5 andpassim.
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51	Max Gluckman, “Analysis of a Social Situation in Modern Zululand, ”Bantu Studies 14.1 (1940): 1–30.
52	Pnina Werbner, The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among Manchester Pakistanis [1990] (Oxford: Berg, 2002): 341.
53	Cf. Tariq Modood, “British Asian Muslims and the Rushdie Affair, ”Political Quarterly 61 (1989): 143–160.
54	Cf. “The Unjust Efforts to Delegitimize Israel, ” (acc. January 27, 2015).
55	Cf. Pnina Werbner, Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakis...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• ‘Home’ and ‘Belonging’ in Diaspora Studies Now
• Diasporic Selves: Memory, Identity, Agency
• Home-Making: Space, Virtuality, Ideology
• Narratives of Belonging: High stories, Boundaries, Trajectories
• List of Contributors
• Index
• Endnotes