Preliminary Material / Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab -- Globalization as Process and Product / Christine A. Monnier and R. Dean Peterson -- States of Denial / Beth Baker-Cristales -- Development, Displacement and Diaspora / Pablo S. Bose -- Redefining My Professional Identity / Anna Kirova -- Blue Collar Patrones / Taku Suzuki -- Too Familiar to be Entirely Alien, Too Alien to be Entirely Familiar / Hugo René Viera-Vargas -- Deconstructing Dimensions of Islamic Identity / Jasmin Zine -- Contradiction, Exclusion and Disruptive Identities / Jonathan Curry-Machado -- New Stories and Diasporic Discourses of Identification / Dina Matar -- Soviet Jews in Toronto / Alexander Shvarts -- The Geography of Desire / Taina Chahal -- About the Authors / Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab -- Other Titles Of Interest / Alireza Asgharzadeh , Erica Lawson , Kayleen U. Oka and Amar Wahab.

Diasporic Ruptures: Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity lies at the intersections of various processes emerging from globalization: border-crossings, transnationalism, identity formations. Carefully selected and placed in two volumes, the essays here represent works of both well-seasoned scholars as well as emerging writers, academics and intellectuals. The volumes critically examine various manifestations of the trend now commonly known as globalization—manifestations that many diasporic communities, immigrants, and people from all walks of life experience. They also illuminate recent political, social, economic and technological developments that are taking place in a rapidly changing world. Volume One offers sophisticated insights into the nature of contemporary formations of diasporic life, internationalism, and hybrid identities. The volume asks bold questions around what it means to live in constantly shifting boundaries of nationality, identity, and citizenship. The type of methodological, discursive and experiential awareness promoted by this work helps us understand how millions of people face the challenge of living in a globalizing world; it also fosters a consciousness of how globalization itself functions differently in different environments. Volume Two (see Volume 7 in Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education) addresses additional and more nuanced questions around culture, race, sexuality, migration, displacement and resistance. It also explores certain epistemological and methodological fallacies regarding conventional articulations of nation-state, nationalism, and the local/global nexus. The volume seeks to answer questions such as: What are the meanings and connotations of ‘displacement’ in a rapidly globalizing world? What are some dilemmas and challenges around notions of cultural hybridity, linguistic diversity, and a sense of belonging? What is the meaning of home in diaspora and the meaning of diaspora at home? Together, the volumes raise many topics that will be of immense interest to scholars across disciplines and general readers. While celebrating the increasing acknowledgment of difference and diversity in recent times, this work reminds us of the ongoing ramifications of dominant structures of inequality, relations of power, and issues of inclusion and exclusion. This work offers different ways of thinking, writing and talking about globalization and the processes that emerge from it.

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