Parminder Bhachu

Movers and Makers (eBook, PDF)

Uncertainty, Resilience and Migrant Creativity in Worlds of Flux

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000184938
• Artikelnr.: 61131516

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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