The paper explores unstable, interconnected and dynamic processes of diasporic nation-building memory-making adult members the Greek diaspora in Australia as they recall their childhood experiences. makes two key original contributions. First, we identify importance re-membered embodied child spaces to hybrid Australian national identities. Second, provides an empirical example contribution tha...

Abstract This article calls for a rethinking of the concept diasporic return in light contemporary religious and political developments Indonesia. It does so by exploring two modalities returns, namely, re-embedding re-encountering, neither which necessarily involve transnational travel or any notion an ancestral homeland, but both are nevertheless important to process diasporization. Based on ...

For various reasons, Pakistani literature has remained at the periphery of academic enquiry and research. As an independent nation, Pakistan is relatively young, with less than 75 years history. The partition 1947 bloodshed violence that ensued had a strong impact on growth culture, as shown in early writing nation which focused sorrow nation. However, after 9/11, numerous other Muslim nations ...

This paper has its focus on women and their lived experiences of migration. Special attention is devoted to whether the media may be used as a means of empowerment and its significance for social, cultural and religious purposes and participation. Also, implications for exercising citizenship practices, both in the homeland and in the “new” country are highlighted. The paper is based on an in-d...

As established in the Sikh scriptural canon, ideal leaders internalize qualities of self-sovereignty, intentional servitude, integrative creativity, authentic compassion, and perhaps most significant of all, Divine inspiration. Models of communal decision-making can also be derived from the lives of the Gur -Prophets (1469–1708 C.E.) and the institutions they established. Though the faith recog...

Craig Owen is a lecturer in psychology at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. His PhD research focused on the performance of masculine identities in capoeira and Latin and ballroom dance classes. Currently, he is collaborating on new research projects that explore the negotiation of gender identities in different social contexts. Searching for fieldwork sites to explore the performance of embodi...

The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...