Diasporic Futures

Name: Diasporic Futures
Brand: Edinburgh University Press

Edinburgh University Press

Diasporic FuturesTemporality and Hope in the Transnational Politics of London Cypriots\nAuthor(s): Evi Chatzipanagiotidou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781399502610, 978-1399502610\nSynopsis\nConnected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures traces the transnational politics of Greek Cypriots in London during a significant historical period in which space opened for diasporic involvement in peace politics at home. It applies a temporal framework and proposes that diasporas and transnationalism - often analysed through an emphasis on space - must also be understood through an investigation of time. The book argues that diasporas do not exist linearly, but are made, reorganised or enervated in and by time, aggregating at part.