The New Expatriates (eBook, ePUB)

Postcolonial Approaches to Mobile Professionals
Redaktion: Fechter, Anne-Meike; Walsh, Katie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume advances our understanding of contemporary mobile professionals by engaging with postcolonial theories of race, culture and identity. It brings together research from across disciplines to highlight postcolonial continuities in relation to people, practices and imaginations.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135701031
• Artikelnr.: 57100695

Autorenporträt

Anne-Meike Fechter is Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. She is the author of Transnational Lives: Expatriates in Indonesia (2007). Her current research focuses on aid workers as mobile professionals. Katie Walsh is affiliated with the Sussex Centre for Migration Research as a lecturer in human geography in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK. Her ethnographic research on British migrants in Dubai explores transnational belonging and identities, with an emphasis on embodiment, emotion, intimacy, and materialities.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Alan Lester 1. Examining 'Expatriate' Continuities: Postcolonial
Approaches to Mobile Professionals Anne-Meike Fechter and Katie Walsh 2.
'New Shanghailanders' or 'New Shanghainese': Western Expatriates'
Narratives of Emplacement in Shanghai James Farrer 3. 'Realising the Self
and Developing the African': German Immigrants in Namibia Heidi Armbruster
4. Work, Identity and Change? Post/Colonial Encounters in Hong Kong
Pauline Leonard 5. Institutionalising the Colonial Imagination: Chinese
Middlemen and the Transnational Corporate Office in Jakarta, Indonesia
William H. Leggett 6. Gender, Empire, Global Capitalism: Colonial and
Corporate Expatriate Wives Anne-Meike Fechter 7. A Postcolonial
Imagination? Westerners Searching for Authenticity in India Mari Korpela
8. From 'Trucial State' to 'Postcolonial' City? The Imaginative Geographies
of British Expatriates in Dubai Anne Coles and Katie Walsh 9. 'They Called
Them Communists Then. . ./ What D'You Call 'Em Now?. . ./ Insurgents?'
Narratives of British Military Expatriates in the Context of the New
Imperialism Ben Rogaly and Becky Taylor