Diasporic Futures

Temporality and Hope in the Transnational Politics of London Cypriots

Evi Chatzipanagiotidou (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0261-0 (ISBN)

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Introduces new ways of understanding diasporas as horizonal and shaped by the future.

Connected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures traces the transnational politics of Greek Cypriots in London during a significant historical period in which space opened for diasporic involvement in peace politics at ‘home’. It applies a temporal framework and proposes that diasporas and transnationalism - often analysed through an emphasis on space - must also be understood through an investigation of time. The book argues that diasporas do not exist linearly, but are made, reorganised or enervated in and by time, aggregating at particular historical points and dissipating at others. Moreover, Diasporic Futures illustrates that, although imagined as anchored in the past and ‘out of sync’, diasporas are ‘horizonal’, made by their orientations towards the future and a politics of hope.

Evi Chatzipanagiotidou is Reader in Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on migration and diasporas, conflict and displacement, and the politics of memory and loss through long-term fieldwork in Cyprus, the UK, Greece and Turkey.

List of Figures
List of Acronyms
Preface
Acknowledgements

1. Diaspora, Time and the Politics of Hope

Part I. Re-membering the Past

2. ‘Who is a Cypriot?’ Migration, Transnationalism and Cypriotism
3. The ‘Left-overs’ of History: Reclaiming the Past in the Diaspora

Part II. Re-membering the Present

4. The Conflicts of Peace: From 'Retrospective' to 'Prospective'
5. The Faces of Cyprus on Facebook: ICTs and Reimagining the Nation
6. Crossing the Line: Borders and Boundaries

Part III. Re-membering the Future

Conclusion: Diasporic Futures

References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Studies on Diasporas and Transnationalism
Zusatzinfo	16 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-3995-0261-1 / 1399502611
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-0261-0 / 9781399502610
Zustand	Neuware