Cosmopolitan India by Rosa Maria Perez

“…This paper debates the modern conceptualization of cosmopolitanism in the social sciences, grounded on the Indian diaspora in the world. Its main focus is the growing Bollywood cinema in Hindi and the role that it plays in the international consumption of the Indian culture.…”
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Toyin Falola and Akintunde Akinyemi (Eds). Encyclopedia of the Yoruba. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. 371pp. by Ibrahim A. Odugbemi

“…Across these entries, the encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa and the most prominent African cultural population, identity and presence in the African diaspora including North America, the Caribbean and South America. …”
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Development of the Information Technology Sector in India: the Role of Government by I. S. Ashmyanskaya

“…The establishment of close ties with the Indian diaspora played a crucial role. The diaspora acted as a link for transmission to India of expertise, investment and knowledge. …”
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Elizandra Souza: escrita periférica em diálogo transatlântico by Sílvia Regina Lorenso Castro

“…En este artículo, se discuten las conexiones entre la vida y la obra de Elizandra de Souza, escritora asociada con la producción literaria de la periferia de São Paulo, en el contexto de las discusiones teóricas sobre la diáspora africana, el pensamiento feminista negro y el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano. …”
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“Russell Banks goes Creole”: A Talk with the Author of The Book of Jamaica and Continental Drift by Kathleen Gyssels, Gaëlle Cooreman

“…The main topics included are Banks’ idea of the Great American Novel, his involvement with the African diaspora and his « Caribbean » novels The Book of Jamaica and Continental Drift.…”
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Identités et territoires by Souheila HEDID

“…The focus is on the African diaspora and the presence of sub-Saharan migrant speakers in the city of Constantine. …”
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Re-Thinking Pan-Africanism and African Integration by Keith Gottschalk

“…Pan-Africanism began as a gift of the diaspora to the African continent. These civil society initiatives in the diaspora culminated in an elaborate permanent, continental, state-centric institutionalisation, starting six decades ago with the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. …”
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Tracking the Indigenous Sacred, Chidester-style by Rosalind I.J. Hackett

“… The article evaluates David Chidester’s Wild religion(2012)for what it teaches us about tracking and studying the ‘indigenous sacred’ in contemporary South Africa, and, by extension, in Africa more generally, and the diaspora. By adopting a more dynamic and open-ended approach to religion as a set of resources and strategies, Chidester provides critical insights on the production, appropriation, and interpretation of indigenous religious myths and ritualsin the post-apartheid setting. …”
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Révolution et migration : la route du sucre dans les Amériques by Nathalie Dessens

“…The present article examines the reconfiguration of the American sugar economy induced by this revolution and the role played by the Saint-Domingue refugee diaspora in this one, highlighting the importance of studying movements of people in the Greater Caribbean zone.…”
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Quand Aznavour va chanter Les disparus… by Janine Altounian

“…Which transmission carry in them the Armenians of the diaspora who accompany the President of the French Republic for a State visit in Armenia? …”
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Racionais MC’s, Marighella e o branqueamento do Brasil by Paulo Dutra

“…Este artículo examina aspectos que rodean el contexto de la producción artística e intelectual de representantes de la diáspora africana en Brasil. El objetivo es demonstrar cómo dicha producción y su recepción pasan por un proceso sistemático de distorsión que conduce a enfoques, análisis y conclusiones que están basados en el proceso de blanqueamiento.…”
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Notices bibliographiques

“…Pour cette rubrique l'interrogation a été faite sur « Moyen Orient », « Turquie », « Iran », « Egypte », « Liban », « Jérusalem », « Emirats », «  kurde », « transfrontalier », « migration internationale », « diaspora », « transnationalisme », « mobilité », « clandestin », « genre », « sexué », « espace public », « activisme », « contestation », « modernisation », « embourgeoisement », « nationalisme », « minorité », « réseau de sociabilité »…”
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Yaquis of Southern California in-between the US-Mexico border by Aracely RIVERA COHEN

“…It presents the in-between amid the “new” and the traditional ceremonial and migration practices of the Yaqui diaspora in California. This paper concludes that the Yaquis of Southern California case is a demonstration of the collective transnational, cultural-ethnic and political practices of the Yaqui peoples. …”
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Reorienting Heritage: Poetic Exchanges between Suquṭra and the Gulf by Nathalie M. Peutz

“…Through these poems and the context of their transnational circulation, the Suquṭran Diaspora is vying for the ability to determine Suquṭri heritage at a time that international, state, and local actors are advancing competing claims for that right. …”
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An algorithm of parameter identification in applied crop ontogenesis models by Vitalijus Denisovas, Natalija Juščenko

“… The objective of the paper is to discuss the development and adaptation to selected region soil and climate conditions of applied grain crop development models considering possibilities of their incorporation to integrated information modelling system DIASPORA. The proposed parameter identification algorithm of applied crop development model was approved using standard meteorological and agrometeorological data obtained from Lithuanian Hidrometeorological Service and Lithuanian Institute of Agriculture. …”
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En Atlantique, dans le parfum du grogú : la valorisation de la canne à sucre aux îles du Cap-Vert by Michel Lesourd

“…The actual demand, due to diaspora as well as tourism, bears the revival of its culture which appears in el grogú, a home-made rhum, considered as an identity marker as well as a local product with standard qualifications.…”
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Nationalism in a new Syria by Diogo Bercito

“…I analyze three articles from that publication in order to understand how he reached out to the diaspora in Latin America and the role he expected it to play. …”
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Le miroir aux alouettes : destin sociologique des images du nu indigène by François Pouillon, Michel Mégnin

“…The prefaces to these books, written by authors who are part of an intellectual diaspora, demonstrate the persistence of relations that Maghreb societies maintain with their women. …”
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Committing journalism? by Hilde Arntsen

“… This paper explores some issues of the contested Zimbabwean 2008 Presidential Election as it was represented in one-frame political cartoons published in a selection of Internet news sites in the Zimbabwean diaspora. It argues that the cartoons may constitute the contours of alternative communicative spaces, in which the cartoonists present arguments about the ongoing Zimbabwean crisis. …”
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The Masquerade in the Marketplace: dele jegede's Introspections and Reflections In Colors and Lines by Toyin Falola

“…The discussion is centered on the artist as a scholar; the artist-scholar in Africa (Nigeria); and the artist-scholar in the Diaspora (United States). In each of the tiers, dele jegede comes across variously as a committed art­ist, a spectator, an interrogator, an advocate, an environmentalist, and much more. …”
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