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Diaspora diplomacy blurs the traditional conceptual dichotomies that map domestic and foreign policymaking efforts. Addressing how such distinctions are varyingly produced requires greater engagement with the way that diplomatic practice modulates the associations between belonging, nation and territory. This paper applies a semiotic analysis to a case study of the images circulated through the social media campaigns of the India Development Foundation of Overseas Indian (IDF-OI) between 2016 and 2017, a quasi-governmental organisation tasked with channelling diaspora philanthropy into state and national social and development projects. It shows that the connotative potential of images simultaneously positioned Indian diasporas as territorial stakeholders within these domestic agendas, whilst also generating performative representations of the diaspora as an extra-territorial global public. It argues that the images circulated through the IDF-OI's digital platforms legitimised those particular voices that served both ideas, thereby empowering those with existing structural advantages. This paper suggests that with the increased use of social media in diaspora diplomacy, scholarship should engage with the richness of online platforms and the ambiguity of images as a specific component of those spaces, to better understand how diasporas are mobilised as non-state actors in contemporary international political affairs.

Diaspora strategies have been at the forefront of new studies of thepolitical geographies of state-led transnationalism, contributing important insights into the widespread socio-economic impacts of initiatives used to engage émigrés in extra-territorial nation-building. The conceptualization of the ' sending state' as a central territorialized bureaucratic form has however contributed to binary framings of diasporic space by failing to capture the range of interplays in and between multiple scales and spaces that characterises the formulation of a states' diaspora strategies, their evolution over time, and their variegated material outcomes. Alternative conceptualizations of the ' sending state' as a multi-sited network of governing entities disrupts binary readings of diaspora space, but it is argued here that such an approach reproduces top-down views of political agency. The review concludes by suggesting that scholars of diaspora strategies would benefit from exploring assemblage thinking, where a sustained engagement with spatial emergence and distributed socio-material agencies has the potential to reveal the dynamic topological connections through which diasporic spatio-political formations emerge, endure and may be disrupted. This has implications for understanding the impacts of diaspora strategies on individual diasporic subjectivities and ideas of common citizenship.

Diaspora strategies have been at the forefront of new studies of thepolitical geographies of state-led transnationalism, contributing important insights into the widespread socio-economic impacts of initiatives used to engage émigrés in extra-territorial nation-building. The conceptualization of the ' sending state' as a central territorialized bureaucratic form has however contributed to binary framings of diasporic space by failing to capture the range of interplays in and between multiple scales and spaces that characterises the formulation of a states' diaspora strategies, their evolution over time, and their variegated material outcomes. Alternative conceptualizations of the ' sending state' as a multi-sited network of governing entities disrupts binary readings of diaspora space, but it is argued here that such an approach reproduces top-down views of political agency. The review concludes by suggesting that scholars of diaspora strategies would benefit from exploring assemblage thinking, where a sustained engagement with spatial emergence and distributed socio-material agencies has the potential to reveal the dynamic topological connections through which diasporic spatio-political formations emerge, endure and may be disrupted. This has implications for understanding the impacts of diaspora strategies on individual diasporic subjectivities and ideas of common citizenship.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Bodies, States and Body-States -- PART I: Bodies Modified and Divided -- 2 Female Circumcision vs. Designer Vaginas: Surgical Genital Practices and the Discursive Reproduction of State Boundaries -- 3 Hunger Strike: The Body as Resource -- 4 Organ Transplantation: The Debt of Life? -- PART II: Capital Bodies -- 5 The Body in Capitalist Conditions of Existence: A Foundational Materialist Approach -- 6 Money Bodies -- 7 Corporeal Capitalism: Invisible Male Bodies in the Global Sexual Economy -- 8 Asian Bodies/Western States (of Mind): A Postmodern Feminist Reading of Reproduction in East Asian Cultures -- PART III: Deviance and Resistance -- 9 Bodies of the State: On the Legal Entrenchment of (Dis)Ability -- 10 Unruly Bodies (Standing Against Apartheid) -- 11 Moments of Withdrawal: Homeschooling Mothers' Experiences of Taking Their Children Out of Mainstream Education -- 12 Greatest Treasures of the Pacific: Mlticultural Genders and HIV Prevention in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- PART IV: Sovereignty and Surveillance -- 13 Governing Mobile Bodies: Human Trafficking and (In)security States -- 14 The Smell of Power: A Contribution to the Critique of the Sniffer Dog -- 15 The Faceless Map: Banning the Cartographic Body -- PART V: The Body Virtual -- 16 Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg -- 17 The Story of the 'I' -- 18 Act 3, Chapter 12, Authority -- Index.

Body and State brings together original essays addressing various aspects of the evolving interaction between bodies and states. While each essay has different empirical and/or theoretical focus, authors consider a number of overlapping themes to appreciate the state's engagement with, and concern about, bodies.

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: BHAKTA, A. . et al, 2015. Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses. Area, 47 (3), pp.282-288, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12192. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. ; Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to Kenya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections on this fieldcourse through a conceptualisation of responsibility as a relational, inter‐subjective achievement borne out of negotiation and encounter. Focusing in particular on the trade‐offs that are required when taking into account different staff, students and partner organisations' positionalities, expectations and experiences, we argue that scholarship concerning the responsibilities of geographers' engagements with the global South needs to account for the emotional, embodied and affective challenges inherent in practising collaborative academic endeavour.