The Dispersion

A History of the Word Diaspora

Stéphane Dufoix (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

604 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-32692-7 (ISBN)

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The Dispersion offers a unique account of how the word “diaspora”, coined in the third century BCE, has recently become both one of the more emblematic terms of the global era and a fashionable academic concept.

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.

Stéphane Dufoix is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He has published on exile politics and diasporas (including Diasporas, University of California Press, 2008). He is working on a historical sociology of the concept of globalization.

Acknowledgements ... ix
List of Maps, Illustrations, Figures and Tables ... xi

Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue ... 1

Part 1: From the Word to the Concept

Introduction to Part 1 ... 23
1 The Word of the Septuagint ... 27
2 The Religious Space of Dispersion ... 76
3 Towards a Secular Concept ... 134

Part 2: Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal

Introduction to Part 2 ... 181
4 Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror ... 185
5 A Name of One’s Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora ... 231
6 The Reversal ... 279

Part 3: The Name of the Global

Introduction to Part 3 ... 337
7 Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies ... 340
8 The Critical Turn ... 392
9 States and Their Diasporas ... 444

Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons ... 495

Bibliography ... 501
Index of Names ... 581

Erscheinungsdatum	27.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Brill's Specials in Modern History ; 1
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, color; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1027 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	90-04-32692-8 / 9004326928
ISBN-13	978-90-04-32692-7 / 9789004326927
Zustand	Neuware