Terence Heng

Diasporas, Weddings and the Trajectories of Ethnicity

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Produktbeschreibung

In an age of increasingly fragmented migration, consumption and globalisation, how do diasporic individuals navigate their ethnic identities? Diasporas, Weddings and Trajectories of Ethnicity investigates the ways that Chinese Singaporeans shape their Chineseness through wedding rituals and artefacts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780367338602
• ISBN-10: 0367338602
• Artikelnr.: 60352450

Autorenporträt

Terence Heng is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Visual Methods in the Field: Photography for the Social Sciences (2016) and Of Gods, Gifts and Ghosts: Spiritual Places in Urban Spaces (2020). His work has been featured in Area, The Sociological Review, Social and Cultural Geography, and Visual Communication, and is the 2015 winner of The Sociological Review's Prize for Outstanding Scholarship.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Reconceptualising Diasporic Space as Transdiasporic Space
2. Configuring Transdiasporic Ethnicity, Ethnic Lifestyles and Ethnic
Tastes
3. Weddings as Sites of Ethnicity-Making
4. Observation, Photography and Poetry - A Methodological Framework of
Creative Practice and Social Research
5. A Visual Introduction to Singapore and Singaporean Chineseness
6. Taste Performances: Making Ethnic Lifestyles Interactive
7. Ethnic Taste and Aesthetic Dissonance
8. Ethnic Taste, Everyday Commercial Activities and the Commercially
Dominant Wedding Aesthetic
9. Conclusion: Aesthetic Dissonance, Ethnic Hybridity and Economic
Life-Paths
Epilogue: Look on My Hands and See it There