Diasporas

Kim Knott is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Leeds and director of Diasporas, Migration and Identities. She has worked on South Asian religious diasporas, particularly British Hindus, and on migration, ethnicity and identity. In conjunction with government and voluntary sector partners she has researched issues of religious and ethnic diversity and representation. In The Location of Religion: A Spatial Analysis (2005) and later articles, she has developed a spatial methodology for researching places, bodies and organisations in which controversies occur about matters of sacred concern, whether religious, secular or postsecular.Seán McLoughlin is senior lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds. Trained in the study of religion, Islam and anthropology, he is an expert on various aspects of South Asian heritage Muslims in Britain and has worked on a number of public projects, as well as giving invited lectures across Europe and in the United States. Co-editor of European Muslims and the Secular State, most recently he was principal investigator on an AHRC Diasporas' network, From Diaspora to Multi-Locality: Writing British-Asian Cities (2006-9).

'Simultaneously panoramic and precise, this volume offers authoritative, inclusive, yet blessedly focused articles on the terms, concepts, and perspectives that collectively define the field of diaspora studies.'Khachig Tölölyan, Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies'As scholarly approaches to Diasporas develop a global profile and span a variety of disciplines, this book provides an incisive account of the state of the art.'Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University'Bringing together an impressive array of distinguished interdisciplinary scholars with wide-ranging perspectives on the cultural and historical significance of contemporary diasporas worldwide, this book provides an essential companion to understanding the complex evolution of concepts of migration and identity and their vital impact on shaping the direction of public and academic debate today.'Susheila Nasta, Open University

• Introduction - Kim Knott and Seán McLoughlinPart I: Concepts and Theories1. Exile - Martin Baumann2. Home and memory - Femke Stock3. Slavery and the Black Atlantic - David Richardson4. Migration - Nicholas Van Hear5. Transnationalism - Peggy Levitt6. Nation, ethnicity and community - Gerd Baumann7. Multiculturalism and citizenship - Tariq Modood8. Postcoloniality - Graham Huggan9. Hybridity - John Hutnyk10. Cosmopolitanism - Steven Vertovec11. Social identities and creolization - Robin Cohen12. Complex diasporas - Pnina Werbner13. Space and movement - Kim KnottPart II: Intersections14. Diasporas and economies - Claire Dwyer15. Diasporas and politics - Peter Mandaville and Terrence Lyons16. Diasporas, conflict and security - Simon Turner17. Diasporas and development - Ben Page and Claire Mercer18. Diasporas and cities - John Eade19. Diasporas, race and difference - Claire Alexander20. Diasporas and gender - Nadje Al-Ali21. Diasporas and sexuality - Kira Kosnick22. Diasporas and religion - Manuel Vasquez23. Diasporas and language - Jaine Beswick24. Diasporas and material culture - Philip Crang25. Diasporas, literature and literary studies - Ananya Jahanara Kabir26. Diasporas and performance - Helen Gilbert and Jacqueline Lo27. Diasporas, film and cinema - Daniela Berghahn28. Diasporas and media - Karim H. Karim29. Diasporas and cyberspace - Victoria BernalPart III: Empirical and Metaphorical Diasporas30. South/North relations in the Americas - Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick and Tricia Vandekooy31. Movements between 'White' Europe and America: Greek migration to the United States - Anastasia Christou and Russell King32. The Russian-Jewish diaspora at the beginning of the twenty-first century - Larissa Remmenick33. The Iranian diaspora in the West - Sanaz Raji34. How the Japanese diaspora in Brazil became the Brazilian diaspora in Japan - Jeffrey Lesser35. Migrations within China - Flemming Christiansen36. Beyond Tibet - Dibyesh Anand37. Sacred journeys, diasporic lives: Sociality and the religious imagination among Filipinos in the Middle East - Mark Johnson, Claudia Liebelt, Deirdre McKay, Alicia Pingol and Pnina Werbner38. Muslim travellers: Home, the ummah and British-Pakistanis - Seán McLoughlin39. Diasporic dialogue among the British in Australia - Sara Wills40. Diasporic creativity: Refugee intellectuals, exiled poets and corporate cosmopolitanism at the BBC World Service - Marie Gillespie41. Colonial space-making and hybridizing history, or 'Are the Indians of East Africa Africans or Indians?' - Ato Quayson42. Transnational musicians' networks across Africa and Europe - Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Nadia Kiwan and Marie-Pierre Gibert43. Diasporic readers and the location of reception - James Procter44. Jews as Rooted Cosmopolitans: The End of Diaspora? - David Shneer and Caryn AvivConclusion: New Directions - Seán McLoughlin and Kim Knott