Open AccessThis collection of essays examines how spatial mobilities of people and practices, technologies and objects, knowledge and ideas have shaped the production, circulation, and transfer of knowledge in different historical and geographical contexts. Targeting an interdisciplinary audience, Mobilities of Knowledge combines detailed empirical analyses with innovative conceptual approaches…
Transnationalism and diaspora -- Historical background of Armenian migration, and formation of the Armenian diaspora -- Peculiarities of Armenian transnational ties -- Modes of representation in transnational social fields -- Components of belonging.This book concerns various modes of being transnational among a diasporic population—Armenians in Germany—by drawing parallels between the firs…
Introduction -- British colonial legacies and the making of Malay(si)a -- A culture of migration -- Education-migration pathways and the (re)production of race -- Interpreting and practising citizenship -- Returning to Malaysia? -- Conclusion: Postcolonialising a culture of migration.Transnational skilled migrants are often thought of as privileged migrants with flexible citizenship. This book …
Preface. Telling lives in feminist narrative inquiry; Liz Stanley -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Doing feminist narrative research; Jo Woodiwiss, Kate Smith and Kelly Lockwood -- Part I. Why feminist narrative research? -- Chapter 2. Challenges for feminist research – contested stories, dominant narratives and narrative frameworks; Jo Woodiwiss -- Chapter 3. Doing narrative research? Thinking th…