Diaspora: The Politics of Its Meanings
In: International Political Sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 107-111
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In: International Political Sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 107-111
In: International Political Sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 95-95
In: International political sociology, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 107-111
ISSN: 1749-5687
A key aspect of diaspora research in international relations should be on the ontological politics of naming migrants, travelers, nomads, guest workers, minorities, their relations, and their politics "diasporic." Academic debates about the definitions of diaspora are endless; not only is this quest largely a waste of time, but it marginalizes a more important issuenamely, the politicality of defining a population or a set of relations as "diasporic." I draw here on the notion of "ontological politics," as developed within actor network theory by John Law and Annemarie Mol (Mol 1999). In her work on clinical practices, Mol demonstrates that a disease such as anemia is not a single reality. It is performed in at least two different ways that depend on the methods through which it is diagnosed and therefore "made real": (i) the analysis of external symptoms by a doctor and (ii) the analysis of hemoglobin levels in a laboratory. What Mol shows is that these are not just different ways at getting at the same preexisting phenomenon but rather that the two methods produce two broadly similar yet distinct realities. Adapted from the source document.
In: CITSEE Working Paper No. 2011/18
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In: Cultures et Conflits, Heft 81-82, S. 213-222
In: Cultures et Conflits, Heft 81-82, S. 213-222
In: European Studies
This edited volume addresses the construction of identity classifications underlying the new forms of inclusion and exclusion that are to be found in contemporary Europe. Its scope covers practices of categorization and of resistance, both by majority groups.