The Dispersion

A History of the Word Diaspora
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32692-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 592 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1027 g

Reihe: Brill's Specials in Modern History

Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award

In The Dispersion, Stéphane Dufoix skillfully traces how the word “diaspora”, first coined in the third century BCE, has, over the past three decades, developed into a contemporary concept often considered to be ideally suited to grasping the complexities of our current world. Spanning two millennia, from the Septuagint to the emergence of Zionism, from early Christianity to the Moravians, from slavery to the defence of the Black cause, from its first scholarly uses to academic ubiquity, from the early negative connotations of the term to its contemporary apotheosis, Stéphane Dufoix explores the historical socio-semantics of a word that, perhaps paradoxically, has entered the vernacular while remaining poorly understood.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dufoix, Stéphane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. ix
List of Maps, Illustrations, Figures and Tables. xi

Introduction. Towards a Historical Socio-semantics of a Word in Vogue. 1

Part 1: From the Word to the Concept

Introduction to Part 1. 23
1 The Word of the Septuagint. 27
2 The Religious Space of Dispersion. 76
3 Towards a Secular Concept. 134

Part 2: Cham Dispersed: From the Jewish Model to the Reversal

Introduction to Part 2. 181
4 Next Year in Ethiopia: Blacks at the Jewish Mirror. 185
5 A Name of One’s Own: The Emergence of the Black/African Diaspora. 231
6 The Reversal. 279

Part 3: The Name of the Global

Introduction to Part 3. 337
7 Constructing the Field of Diaspora Studies. 340
8 The Critical Turn. 392
9 States and Their Diasporas. 444

Conclusion. Two Cats and Three Demons. 495

Bibliography. 501
Index of Names. 581

Über Autor(innen)

Stéphane Dufoix is Professor of Sociology at the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. He has published on exile politics and diasporas (including Diasporas, University of California Press, 2008). He is working on a historical sociology of the concept of globalization.