Criar forças é criar Quilombos: boxeadoras, coletividade tática e ativismo comunitário de jovens negras no Brasil by Antônia Gabriela P. de Araújo

“…This paper will, from reflections on issues of racial geographies and black women in the African Diaspora, emphasize the performance of black girls' feminism and community activism in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil through a martial art arena, boxing. …”
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Migrating Literature: Zachary Richard’s Cajun Tales by Mathilde Köstler

“…Bringing together different regions, the tales respatialize the Acadian diaspora in a geo-cultural imaginary space and undergird the transnational connection.…”
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Discours et pratiques féministes contemporaines dans et hors des frontières by Avtar Brah, Clelia Clini

“…Her book Cartographies of a Diaspora (1996) has been widely read internationally and opened up new perspectives on ‘difference’ and ‘diversity’, informed by feminism and post-structuralism. …”
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Condiciones del desplazamiento forzado de mujeres en mesoamérica by Manuela Camus, Bernadette Eguía

“…Este texto se centra en las experiencias de las mujeres centroamericanas dentro de la diáspora masiva hacia el sobrevivir huyendo de las violencias sistemáticas de género y la situación de extrema precariedad en sus países de origen. …”
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Entre arácnidas deidades y leones africanos:Contribución al debate de un enfoque afroamericanista en Colombia by Eduardo Restrepo

“…Durante las últimas décadas, un interesante enfoque para el estudio de la diáspora africana ha sido desarrollado en Colombia que difiere de otros enfoques en la relevancia teórica dada no sólo a Gregory Bateson, sino también a la ecología y materialismo cultural. …”
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INDIGENEIDAD: PROBLEMÁTICAS, EXPERIENCIAS Y AGENDAS EN EL NUEVO MILENIO by Marisol de la Cadena, Orin Starn

“…Considerando las diferencias historicas locales -articuladas con formaciones de nación-Estado- explicamos la diferencia entre etnicidad e indigeneidad, la porosidad de las fronteras entre quienes se identifican como indígenas y quienes no lo hacen, las condiciones en que ocurre la indigeneidad en la diáspora contemporanea y los problemas del esencialismo indigenizante.…”
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WHERE IS OUR HOME? by B van de Beek

“…Later, Israel ended with the diaspora. According to the New Testament, Christians are strangers even more, because their home is in heaven with Christ. …”
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Migrações e periferias: o levante do slam by Fernanda Vilar

“…Basado en conceptos como la tercera diáspora (Guerreiro, 2010) y el artivismo (Debord, 1997), entre otros, el artículo busca comprender cómo estas comunidades afirman sus alteridades en las dinámicas de las migraciones y post-colonizaciones, así como reclaman versiones alternativas a la narrativa oficial y su inscripción en el presente.…”
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Arrows of Desire: Dance and Power in Transnational Cinema by May Telmissany

“…This article focuses on the complexity of oriental belly dancing as it has become in recent years an expression of female joy and “will to power” celebrated by Arab and North African diaspora filmmakers. Associated with female emancipation rather than moral decline, the practice of oriental dancing is perceived as a symbol of subaltern expression, a site of female solidarity and a tool for sexual liberation. …”
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Genealogies of African Nationalism and the Idea of Africa by Bongani Ngqulunga

“…This paper explores commonalities and differences in their imaginings and idea of Africa, and demonstrates the significance that political and intellectual currents from the African diaspora had in shaping the notion of the ‘New Africa’ that they advocated. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…It draws on ethnographic research among Soninke speakers in the Gambia and in the diaspora who express their relationship to others through images of what could be characterized as “viability”. …”
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Intelectuais sob a dinâmica "lógica oral" by Maria Antonieta Martinez Antonacci

“…Trabalhando com a “lógica oral”, trazemos expressões de comunicação de grupos populares de matrizes africanas no Brasil e no Novo Mundo, reinventando seus universos culturais em performances, apreendidas em diferentes lugares com forte presença de culturas negras em diáspora. Na segunda parte, o ensaio encaminha questões metodológicas, históricas e epistêmicas em torno de civilizações orais em África, diferenciadas em termos de cognição, transmissão de saberes e memórias, bem como em comunicações comunitárias. …”
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Dispersion of the Yorùbá to the Americas: A Fatalist Hermeneutics of Orí in the Yorùbá Cosmos – Reading from Tutuoba: Salem’s Black Shango Slave Queen by Emmanuel Adeniyi

“… Studies in African Diaspora ofen privilege the transatlantic slavery, Columbus’ discovery of the New World, and African cultural codes in the Americas. …”
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Trente ans d'exil en Suisse. José Herrera Petere (Genève, 1947-1977) by Rose Duroux

“…It is an original experience in the republican diaspora.…”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…It draws on ethnographic research among Soninke speakers in the Gambia and in the diaspora who express their relationship to others through images of what could be characterized as “viability”. …”
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Early Iron Age Terracottas from Southern Portugal: Towards the Definition of a Regional Coroplastic Tradition by Francisco B. Gomes

“…At the beginning of the Iron Age, the iconographic output of the communities of southwestern Iberia was radically changed by the introduction of a rich and diverse imagery with Near Eastern roots brought to the Far West by the Phoenician diaspora. Coroplasty, however, does not seem to have been a popular medium for iconographic expression within Phoenician and “Orientalizing” groups. …”
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Visibility and Memories-Building Processes among Afro-Descendants. El Afroargentino Case by Paola Carolina Monkevicius

“…It specifically concentrates on the periodical publication “El afroargentino”, published by the civil association African Diaspora from Argentina (DIAFAR by its Spanish acronym), since 2014. …”
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Inmigrantes haitianos y dominico-haitianos en República Dominicana. Cambios y posibles implicaciones de los perfiles by Schwarz Coulange Méroné

“…Los datos sugieren que una parte significativa de la población de origen haitiano es susceptible de radicar por tiempos relativamente largos en República Dominicana, lo cual conllevaría implicaciones para el futuro de dicha migración, particularmente la referida a la naturaleza de los lazos entre la diáspora haitiana en República Dominicana y la población no migrante de Haití, y, más ampliamente, para las relaciones entre los dos países involucrados.…”
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Intangible heritage as a social construction of authenticity: the example of Tunisian cuisine by Wadie Othmani

“…Thanks to the crossing, on the one hand, of the perimeter of production and development of a culinary culture inked through the succession of civilizations throughout the history of the country and, on the other hand, of the perimeter encompassing the Maghrebis (Tunisians, Algerians, Libyans and the diaspora) who currently consume spicy dishes (which characterize Tunisian cuisine) on a daily basis, the article proposes to determine the Territory of Tunisian Culinary Heritage (TTCH). …”
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