Ato Quayson - A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism

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Wiley Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies

Advisory editor: David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

This series provides theoretically ambitious but accessible volumes devoted to the major fields and subfields within cultural studies, whether as single disciplines (film studies) inspired and reconfigured by interventionist cultural studies approaches, or from broad interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives (gender studies, race and ethnic studies, postcolonial studies). Each volume sets out to ground and orientate the student through a broad range of specially commissioned articles and also to provide the more experienced scholar and teacher with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions. An overarching Companion to Cultural Studies will map the territory as a whole.

This edition first published 2013

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Notes on Contributors

Ali Albarghouthi is a PhD candidate at the University of WaterlooWilfrid Laurier University joint program in Religious Studies in Waterloo, Ontario. His work is based on interviews he conducted with American and Canadian academics and religious leaders. It focuses on ijtihad and its role in redefining religious norms and reinterpreting the Shariah in the West and how ijtihad is used to (de)construct religious authority. He is also interested in the influence of the North American culture(s) on Muslim (re)interpretation of primary religious sources and shifting notions of religiosity, Islamic modernism and liberalism, progressive Islam, the formative period of Islam, and Islamic heterodoxy.

Hakem Al-Rustom is the Manoogian Simone Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His doctoral thesis investigated the silenced past of postgenocide Armenians in Turkey since 1923. He specializes in the intersection between anthropology and history, ethnographic silences, political emotions, and settler colonialism. His research provides alternative approaches to the study of Middle Eastern and post-Ottoman societies, and interrogates the politics of minorities/majorities in governing population diversity with reference to Armenians, Arab Jews, Christians in the Middle East, and Muslims in Europe. He is the co-editor of Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (with Adel Iskandar, 2010).

Emmanuel Akyeampong is Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Akyeampongs research interests include social and cultural history, comparative slavery, environment, and the history of disease and medicine. His publications include: Between the Sea and the Lagoon: An Eco-Social History of the Anlo of Southeastern Ghana, c.1850 to Recent Times (2001) and A Dictionary of African Biography (6 vols, with Henry Louis Gates Jr, 2012).

Garrett Wallace Brown is Reader in Political Theory and Global Ethics in the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield. His interests include Kantian political and legal theory, cosmopolitanism, global health governance, international legal theory, globalization theory and issues lying at the interface between political theory and international relations. He has published