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The invisibility of diasporic capital and multiply migrant creativity
No full textIn this chapter, I focus on the ability to create the new without knowing what the contours of that creation will be. This is a central feature of Punjabi diaspora sensibilities as immigrants tread new terrain by dialogically responding to the moment as it transpires and collaboratively negotiating the next move. The experience of exploring territories that are unknown in advance fosters a powerful aesthetic among diasporic peoples, one involving both discovery and skill
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Twice Versus Direct Migrants: East African Sikh Settlers in Britain
Get PDFThis paper has three main aims:first, it attempts to document salient features of a settler population of the twice migrant East African Sikhs,whose orientations and patterns of settlement, are different from that of the directly migrant groups who constitute the majority South Asian population in Britain. It analyses the major features of the organisation of the community, namely community values, its structure, economic organisation, the influence of a strong communications network, the consequences of the lack of a"myth of return" "and so on to formulate a picture of the field of social relationships in Britain.Secondly, it examines the relationship of caste and class, both prior to the Indian army action at the Golden Temple in June 1984 and after the 1984 which outraged the Sikhs internationally, to show that these axis of social organisation were, and still remain,critical to the formation of the intra-group identities of the direct and twice migrants. These are defined not only as a result of the increased contact of of the latter with the former on the British scene,but also in accordance with the perceptions of the white indigenous British,who are not familiar with finer internal differences.Thirdly, it explores the post-1984 phase which has seen developments that are different from the Pre-1984, and which led to the formation of a more inclusive and more "universal" Sikh identity, regardless of caste and class differences, and experiences of migration
It\u27s hip to be Asian: The local and global networks of Asian fashion entrepreneurs in London
No full textThis chapter explores diasporic cultural production in global markets through the consumer cultural products of British Asian women and the diasporean aesthetics that govern their fashion style
Identities Constructed and Reconstructed: Representations of Asian Women 1 in Britain
No full textOn the whole, white feminists stress oppression by the patriarchy, the imposition of purdah, the control exercised by their men and capitalist producers in the economy, and the constraints of their cultural values. Non-white socialist feminists (Brah 1987 and 1988, Parmar 1984 and 1988, Amos and Parmar 1984, Carby 1984, Foster-Carter 1987 and 1988, Bhagavani and Coulson 1986), have reacted against these constructions and pointed to their ethnocentrism, the lack of understanding of the race and class dimensions of the lives of Asian and black women, the diversity of their experiences in the diaspora (Parmar 1989) and the heterogeneity of their populations in Britain (Brah 1987). A number of anthropologists (mostly white and women) writing on these issues in Britain and die United States have come under fire for representing the cultural values of Asian women as oppressive without taking account of them as active agents. Countering such representations, black feminists have pointed to the militancy of Asian women, particularly salient in Britain through their organisation of strikes, to show that this is not a new phenomenon (Trivedi 1984) in the subcontinent and Britain. 2 This militancy is further manifested in the present in the struggles and resistances in which British Asians women are engaged against racism and imperialism on both the economic and political fronts. 3 Despite this, representations of these women as politically inactive, shy and powerless are common and persist
Movers and makers: Uncertainty, resilience and migrant creativity in worlds of flux
No full textWe live in times of extreme change. There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium. What can be learnt from their creative moxie as innovators outside establishment powers? Why has their creative reach grown exponentially in our globally connected twenty-first century? How have their abilities to innovate been catalyzed without subscription to knowledge hierarchies and monopolies? These culturally dexterous movers who possess movement capital, advanced with every migration, have translated ancient maker and craft skills into transforming modern technology, science, design, architecture, and the arts. Generous, inclusive, and deeply collaborative, they are at the heart of open source sharing for collective intelligence, the common good, and the maker movement. They invigorate the economies they reside in greatly enhancing creative capacities and reach. Bhachu, herself a multiple-migrant maker, offers us a model for a hopeful way forward, bringing her unique ethnographic insights to illuminate what can be learnt about thriving in worlds of flux
Diaspora Conversations: Ethics, Ethicality, Work and Life
No full textA conversation between Parminder Bhachu and Gargi Bhattacharyya
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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