The place which is diaspora: Citizenship, religion and gender in the making of chaordic transnationalism
- P. Werbner
- Political Science, Sociology
- 1 January 2002
The paper argues for a need to analyse the organisational and moral, as well as the aesthetic dimensions of diasporas in order to understand their political and mobilising power. Organisationally,…
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis
- P. Werbner
- History, Economics
- 1 September 2002
This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since…
Metaphors of Spatiality and Networks in the Plural City: A Critique of the Ethnic Enclave Economy Debate
- P. Werbner
- Sociology
- 1 August 2001
This paper considers a particular debate in the scholarly literature on ethnicity in the United States regarding ethnic entrepreneurship which has come to be known as the `ethnic enclave economy…
Global pathways. Working class cosmopolitans and the creation of transnational ethnic worlds
- P. Werbner
- Sociology, Political Science
- 1 February 1999
The current interest in new diasporas and globalisation processes raises the question of what a transnational subjectivity might be like? What does it mean to be, in some sense or other, at home in…
The limits of cultural hybridity: on ritual monsters, poetic licence and contested postcolonial purifications
- P. Werbner
- Art
- 1 March 2001
Il y a de nombreux paralleles entre la theorie de l'hybridisme, particulierement telle qu'elle a ete developpee dans les travaux de Bhabha, et les theories de la liminalite en anthropologie,…
Theorising Complex Diasporas: Purity and Hybridity in the South Asian Public Sphere in Britain
- P. Werbner
- Political Science
- 1 September 2004
This paper examines the creation of alternative diasporic public spheres in Britain by South Asian settlers: one produced through the entertainment industry—commercial film and other media—that…
Everyday multiculturalism: Theorising the difference between ‘intersectionality’ and ‘multiple identities’
- P. Werbner
- Sociology
- 22 July 2013
This paper contrasts intersectionality, the negative definition of identities, and multiple identities, the situational valorisation of positive identities, to argue for a generational shift in the…
Islamophobia: Incitement to religious hatred – legislating for a new fear?
- P. Werbner
- Political Science
- 1 February 2005
1The Serious Crime and Organised Crime and Police Bill was originally brought to Parliament by the then Home Secretary David Blunkett on 24 November 2004…
Introduction: Towards a New Cosmopolitan Anthropology
- P. Werbner
- History
- 2007
those who came to London, as well as the absent members, were a cosmopolitan group. They had crossed disciplinary and territorial boundaries in becoming anthropologists . . . They came out of…
Bootstrap capitalism and the culture industries: a critique of invidious comparisons in the study of ethnic entrepreneurship
- Dipannita Basu, P. Werbner
- Economics
- 1 January 2001
A perennial debate in Europe and the United States has been about the causes of apparent black under-representation in self-employment, an implicit racialization in scholarly discourse which arguably…
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