Alison Blunt

Domicile and Diaspora

Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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Produktbeschreibung

Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian Independence in 1947. Theoretically informed and substantively grounded, the book draws on interviews and focus groups with over150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Key themes include: imaginative geographies of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland before Independence; the establishment of Anglo-Indian homelands; Anglo-Indian migration under the British Nationality Act of 1948 and the White Australia Policy; and the spatial politics of home for Anglo-Indians today in India, Britain and Australia. As well as exploring what it means to be Anglo-Indian, Domicile and Diaspora makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781405100557
• ISBN-10: 1405100559
• Artikelnr.: 21826442

Autorenporträt

Alison Blunt is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism (1994), the co-author of Dissident Geographies (2000), and the co-editor of Writing Women and Space (1994), Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Cultural Geography in Practice (2003). She was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2002 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.

Series Editors' Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Domicile and Diaspora: An Introduction.

2 At Home in British India: Imperial Domesticity and NationalIdentity.

3 Home, Community and Nation: Domesticating Identity andEmbodying Modernity.

4 Colonization and Settlement: Anglo-Indian Homelands.

5 Independence and Decolonization: Anglo-Indian Resettlement inBritain.

6 Mixed Descent, Migration and Multiculturalism: Anglo-Indiansin Australia since 1947.

7 At Home in Independent India: Post-Imperial Domesticity andNational Identity.

8 Domicile and Diaspora: Conclusions.

Bibliography.

Appendix 1 Archival Sources.

Appendix 2 Interviews and Focus Groups.

Index

Rezensionen

'This is a first rate book. Alison Blunt studies a communitythat has been reinventing 'itself', and its senses ofhome and belonging, in the period since 1947. She shows how thesereinventions have been pursued in different ways by differentcommunity leaders, including in the run-up to India'sindependence, and how another set of reinventions is playing outaround the dress and marriage choices of Anglo-Indianwomen.'
Stuart Corbridge, Professor/Doctor Geography & RegionalStudies, London School of Economics

'Alison Blunt has defined and shaped this research area.Perceptive accounts of Anglo-Indian women's lives are woven througha scholarly analysis of community and identity in India and a widerdiaspora through the twentieth century. She has produced anabsorbing and refreshing book.'
Morag Bell, Professor of Cultural Geography, LoughboroughUniversity

"This is an accessible and clearly written book and would beuseful for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses oncultural and postcolonial geographies"
The Geographical Journal

"Alison Blunt's latest offering Domicile and Diaspora:Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home provides arich and flavourful repast of the betwixt and in-between people ofpart-British and part-Indian descent... Blunt delivers a cogent,deeply historicized, and creatively theorized account of thecultural and spatial contours of Anglo-Indian domesticity."
The Journal of Black Canadian Studies