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Week 5★Oct 30th Questions of Travel

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https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/Books/978-0-8223-1821-7_pr.jpg the readings would be distributed in class Required Readings Kaplan, Caren. 1996. “Questions of Travel: an Introduction” & “Chapter 3: Travelling Theorists: Cosmopolitan Diasporas”, Questions Of Travel: Postmodern Discourses Of Displacement , Duke University Press, 1-26 & 101-142.  

AFRO-CARIBBEANS IN UK: ROOTS TO RECKONING PHOTO ARCHIVE AT THE MUSEUM OF LONDON

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http://dodgeburn.blogspot.jp/2014/06/afro-caribbean-photo-archive-UK.html For more on  Armet Francis [whose photography works referred to by Stuart Hall] and other  AFRO-CARIBBEAN photograthers Check this out: http://dodgeburn.blogspot.jp/2014/06/afro-caribbean-photo-archive-UK.html

Readings for Week 4★ Oct 23rd Questioning Diaspora

every reading will be distributed on Oct 15 in-class Required Readings Bruneau, Michel. “Diasporas, Transnational Spaces and Communities”, In: Diaspora and Transnationalism: Concepts, Theories and Methods. Bauböck R, Faist T (Eds); Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: 35-49. Hall, Stuart. 2003. “Cultural Identity and Diaspora,” in Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader . Jana Evans Braziel & Anita Mannur (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell: 233-246 Secondary Reading Jana Evans Braziel & Anita Mannur. 2003. “Nation, Migration, Globalization: Points of Contention in Diaspora Studies”, in Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader . Jana Evans Braziel & Anita Mannur (Eds), Wiley-Blackwell: 1-22

Readings for Week 3 ★Oct 16th Questioning Globalization & (Trans)Nationalism

Required Readings Arjun, Appadurai. “Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy”, Theory, Culture & Society , June 1990 7: 295-310  [download it HERE ] Bartolovich, Crystal. “Global Capital and Transnationalism”, in A Companion To Postcolonial Studies . Henry Schwarz & Sangeeta Ray (Eds), Blackwell Publishing: 126-161 [distributed in class]