Locating Muslim diasporas

Multi-Locality, Multi-Disciplinarity and Performativity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2147482
AutoresSeán Mcloughlin (0000-0002-6004-8036, University of Leeds, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen40
Número3
Páginas421-427
Fecha de publicación2017-02-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1249503
OpenAlexW2567925131
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas26

The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration produces one of our most detailed anatomies of a "TranslAsian" time-space location. It juxtaposes the ways that multiple migrations and diasporas have been locally, multi-locally and trans-temporally configured, and so re-orientates attention beyond a Eurocentric focus on the West. In an ambitious move towards multi-disciplinary holism that reflexively acknowledges the "pieced-together" nature of its own representations "here and now" social relations and juxtaposed with thicker descriptions of memorialized "origins and causes". In this regard The Bengal Diaspora can be said to map "religion"-based dimensions of Muslim diasporas in terms of three distinctive spatial scales. However, while "Muslim" identifications are rightly conceived as contextual performances by migrants with divergent social capitals in specific social settings, I suggest that the unstable reproduction of Islamic tradition as a more or less enduring part of social structure is a part of Muslim performativity too

Caste · Diaspora · Geography · Hinduism · Islam · Locality · Mobilities · Performativity · Political science · Social space · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · West bengal · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Religious studies