Naslov
Benefiting from diaspora : concepts and perspectives

Autori
Povrzanović Frykman, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Http://www.hum.ku.dk/iae/etnologi/kongres/ - "Program" - "Multikulturalitet, migration og diaspora" / - , 2003

Skup
Nordisk Etnolog- og Folkloristkongres 2003

Mjesto i datum
Helsingør, Danska, 06.05.2003. - 08.05.2003

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
diaspora; transnationalism; ethnic community; ethnic group

Sažetak
The extensive use and the conceptual enlargement of the notion of diaspora have resulted in analytical confusion. It is used to describe attempts to reconstitute ethnicity-based communities outside the natal or imagined natal territory, but also to analyse a range of racial and religious categoric groups that are considered "deterritorialized", and even minorities that are no longer related to any external point of origin. Cultural studies oriented to diasporic authors stress diasporic creativity in cultural production. Anthropology interested in grass-roots globalisation processes sees diasporic networks as sites of resistance to capital and hegemony, and diasporic identities as evidence against essentializing categories. Intellectuals from various diasporic populations engage in constituting "hybrid" identities in order to promote their cultural particularity and political rights. People, who have been called Gastarbeiter, embrace the designation of diaspora as gentrifying and politically empowering. This paper provides theoretical orientation in diaspora studies, and promotes transnational perspective in ethnological research. Additionally, it proposes frames for a discussion of theoretical relations between the concept of diaspora and the concepts of transnationalism, ethnic community and ethnic group, hybridity and multicultural politics.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Etnologija i antropologija

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