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Diasporic Futures

Temporality and Hope in the Transnational Politics of London Cypriots

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Connected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures traces the transnational politics of Greek Cypriots in London during a significant historical period in which space opened for diasporic involvement in peace politics at 'home'. It applies a temporal framework and proposes that diasporas and transnationalism - often analysed through an emphasis on space - must also be understood through an investigation of time. The book argues that diasporas do not exist linearly, but are made, reorganised or enervated in and by time, aggregating at particular historical points and dissipating at others. Moreover, Diasporic Futures illustrates that, although imagined as anchored in the past and 'out of sync', diasporas are 'horizonal', made by their orientations towards the future and a politics of hope.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-09-30
Mått156 x 234 x 24 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieEdinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism
Antal sidor304
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399502610

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List of FiguresList of AcronymsPrefaceAcknowledgements1. Diaspora, Time and the Politics of HopePart I. Re-membering the Past2. ‘Who is a Cypriot?’ Migration, Transnationalism and Cypriotism3. The ‘Left-overs’ of History: Reclaiming the Past in the DiasporaPart II. Re-membering the Present4. The Conflicts of Peace: From 'Retrospective' to 'Prospective'5. The Faces of Cyprus on Facebook: ICTs and Reimagining the Nation6. Crossing the Line: Borders and BoundariesPart III. Re-membering the FutureConclusion: Diasporic FuturesReferencesIndex

Diasporic Futures is a thoughtful study in the anthropology of hope, tracing and questioning its analytic horizons in the context of frozen conflict. Its remarkable ethnographic richness springs from the various locations in which diaspora happens: the erstwhile colonial centre, the questionable homeland, community centres, political performances, cyberspace and multifarious borders. A needed text for bleak times.