| Imagined Diasporas Among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakistani Transnational Identity Politics Contributor(s): Werbner, Pnina (Author) |
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ISBN: 1930618123 ISBN-13: 9781930618121 Publisher: James Currey (GB) OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.891 |
| LCCN: 2002019212 |
| Series: World Anthropology |
| Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6.34" W x 9.64" (1.39 lbs) 306 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Manchester Muslim diaspora features an intense local micro-politics of honor and shame, debated in the globalized language of world affairs and dramatically enacted through public performance. Pnina Werbner reveals that Manchester Pakistanis occupy a locally created public space that appropriates and combines traveling ideas and images from a variety of sources into meaningful moral allegories. Living in the diaspora requires them constantly to negotiate the boundaries of minority citizenship. For Brisish Muslims this process--usually peaceful--has lurched from one confrontation to another: from the Rushdie affair to the Gulf War to the post-September 11 crisis. Each crisis has signaled a more mature grasp by diasporic Muslims of what it means to be a Brisish citizen in a global world. |