Embodied Memory and Bengali Identities in Britain

Gender, Dance, and British Bangladeshi Pasts, Presents, and Futures
2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-74053-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

Reihe: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

This book provides insight into the relationship between embodied processes and products of remembering and belonging among British Bangladeshi women in Tower Hamlets, London. Based on an analysis of memories performed in both professional and social dancing among British Bangladeshi women, as well as of the spaces and encounters that enable the production, transmission, and negotiation of such memories, this book addresses questions about the relationship between remembering and identification in the diaspora.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Giese, Julia

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Embodied Memories and the Diaspora.- 3. Setting the Scene.- 4. Beneath the Surface.- 5. Choreographing the Past.- 6. Embodied Transmission and Communication.- 7. Transnationalisation and Regionalisation of Mnemonic Belonging.- 8. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Julia Giese is a current Research Associate at the Department for Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University in the UK. She is interested in cultural memory, gender and diaspora, media work, and creative research methodologies.