Movers and Makers

Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux

Parminder Bhachu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-8923-1 (ISBN)

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We live in times of extreme change. There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium. What can be learnt from their creative moxie as innovators outside establishment powers? Why has their creative reach grown exponentially in our globally connected twenty-first century? How have their abilities to innovate been catalyzed without subscription to knowledge hierarchies and monopolies? These culturally dexterous movers who possess movement capital, advanced with every migration, have translated ancient maker and craft skills into transforming modern technology, science, design, architecture, and the arts. Generous, inclusive, and deeply collaborative, they are at the heart of open source sharing for collective intelligence, the common good, and the maker movement. They invigorate the economies they reside in greatly enhancing creative capacities and reach. Bhachu, herself a multiple-migrant maker, offers us a model for a hopeful way forward, bringing her unique ethnographic insights to illuminate what can be learnt about thriving in worlds of flux.

Parminder Bhachu is the author of both Twice Migrants and Dangerous Designs and also co-editor of both Enterprising Women and Immigration and Entrepreneurship. She is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Clark University, Massachusetts, USA. She has held a Henry R. Luce Professorship in Cultural Identities and Global Processes and has been a Director of Women’s Studies. She has lived in multiple sites in East Africa, the United Kingdom, and on both the east and west coasts of the United States.

Introduction 1. Maker origins and migrant creativity 2. Kuljit Bhamra: artisanal music maker and democratizer of musical knowledge 3. A diasporic Gaudi: Bhajan Hunjan - architectural artist with material daring 4. Amarjit Kalsi: lyrical architect, virtuoso draughtsman 5. Jasleen Kaur: jugaadhan and border-crossing catalyzer of dialogue 6. Fearless sound shaper, Rishi Rich, and path-breaking singer-songwriter, Jay Sean 7. Multi-faceted makers and defiant disruptors of the artistic status quo: the Singh Twins 8. Wishing the best for all: Suneet Singh Tuli – computing power for the billions 9. Jatinder Verma: cartographer of politicized performance: mapping a landscape of dreams 10. Professor Sir Tejinder Singh Virdee: navigator of Newton’s ocean of truth Conclusion. The immigrant imperative: sharing and contributing for the common good

Erscheinungsdatum	06.04.2021
Zusatzinfo	10 Halftones, color; 14 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustrations, color; 14 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4725-8923-8 / 1472589238
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-8923-1 / 9781472589231
Zustand	Neuware