Special Issues

1.  Gendering Diaspora. Feminist Review 90:1 (October, 2008).

   Abstract:
   The goal of Gendering Diaspora is to stimulate critical reflection among feminist scholars about the formation of diaspora as a site of political aspiration and solidarity, and as a social, cultural and political framework of analysis. Foregrounding the role of racial and gendered formation in the circulation of global capital, contributors emphasize that diasporic dialogues are never truly equitable, for the politics of transnational exchange are thoroughly embedded in the same material and ideological networks of power from which they emerge. Gendering Diaspora emerges from papers given at the conference 'Diasporic Hegemonies' at Duke University, USA, in Autumn 2005 and is part of an ongoing discussion about what constitutes both diaspora and feminist analysis from a transnational perspective.