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Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State
Latin American Research Review, 2022 Black women who seek and win elected office are changing the political landscape in the Americas. In Latin America, this shift became widely recognized when Epsy Campbell Barr became the first Black woman vice president in Costa Rica in 2018.
Marianela Muñoz-Muñoz
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The Location of Settled Diasporas in Nova Scotian Fiction
Humanities, 2020 This article offers a comparative study between two novels by Nova Scotian writers: George and Rue (2006), by George Elliott Clarke, and No Great Mischief (2000), by Alistair MacLeod.
Miasol Eguíbar-Holgado
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Études Caribéennes, 2012 This work proposes to read The Swinging Bridge as a process by which a hybrid Indo-Trinidadian Diaspora is created. It argues that the novel’s recovery of memory constitutes a process by which individual memories turn into a collective diasporic memory ...
Rodolphe Solbiac
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Towards A True Afropolitanism: Reconstructing African Diasporic Identities
UJAH Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2022 This essay redefines the idea of Afropolitanism lost in the world of identity and cultural studies. Defined by Taiye Selasi as a concept that studies persons of African descent who found home everywhere they lived, yet belonged nowhere, this paper holds ...
Chike Mgbeadichie, C. Okoye
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Urban encounters: juxtapositions of difference and the communicative interface of global cities [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores the communicative interface of global cities, especially as it is shaped in the juxtapositions of difference in culturally diverse urban neighbourhoods.
Amin, A. +12 more
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La ricomposizione del tessuto territoriale. Fra tradizione e dispersione
EtnoAntropologia, 2019 The article aims to examine how following a natural disaster, in this case the 2009 earthquake in Abruzzo (Central Italy), the reconstruction can be directed towards different projects that may have as a result the reconstitution of the affected ...
Thea Rossi
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The weak and the powerful: a longue-durée and comprehensive perspective on diasporas
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire, 2014 The essay examines the model case, the stateless Jewish diaspora, and asks why a dispersed powerful people like “the” Romans is not analyzed as diaspora. Do people, who establish institutions of rule far from their core and mythical place of origin, Rome
Dirk Hoerder
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Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2019 This essay uses frameworks derived from Archipelagic American studies to examine Tiphanie Yanique’s novel Land of Love and Drowning and the United States Virgin Islands on the 100th anniversary of their transfer from Denmark.
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
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Roots, Routes, and Routers: Social and Digital Dynamics in the Jain Diaspora
Religions, 2019 In the past three decades, Jains living in diaspora have been instrumental in the digital boom of Jainism-related websites, social media accounts, and mobile applications.
Tine Vekemans
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«The Karma of Chicken Curry». Tibetan Masala films and youth narratives of exile [PDF]
, 2018 This essay offers a preliminary study of the cultural translation practices by young Tibetan exilic filmmakers in India, whose films, rather than rejecting the masala formula offered by Bollywood, have tentatively adapted it to the expectations of a ...
Matta, Mara
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