... in the diaspora. In the latter case, this article considers the protests as a transnational media event, focusing on the use of social media in the Iranian diaspora, and examines how Iranians around the world have used social media to connect to the events in Iran as a form of activism and in the performance...

... to the present day, Iranians have struggled to negotiate their relationship to both their home- and host land. Iran-focused associations, oriented toward both Sweden and Iran simultaneously, have aimed to capture the transnational positioning of this diverse group. Today in Sweden there are more than one hundred...

... : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012 . Mukherji S. Ani . “ ‘Like another Planet to the Darker Americans’: Black Cultural Work in 1930s Moscow .” In Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the Long Twentieth Century , edited by Rosenhaft Eve Aitken Robbie . Liverpool...

...Jonathan Hyslop Hyslop’s article criticizes Julian Go’s approach to the historical analysis of empires. It views his work as an example of comparative historical sociology and contrasts it with the methods of transnational historians. While both schools constitute valid research directions...

...Sadia Saeed This article examines how a transnational religious movement that originated in British India, the Ahmadiyya movement, deployed the norm of religious freedom in the course of its expansion outside the British Empire. Ostracized by mainstream Muslims, Ahmadis used their position...

..., particularly the vernacular ones hitherto neglected, and otherwise historical literature than has been af- forded by his predecessors in the field. Moreover, his close association with the rank and file of the Urban Informality: Transnational...

... their preferred identities. It identifies such events related to appropriation of cinema as and within various public spheres: from transnational and colonial to cultural-national and rural-vernacular. In this way Raju attempts to understand the specific processes of cultural appropriation of cinema, a Western...

... . Hill Christopher . “Conceptual Universalization in the Transnational Nineteenth Century.” In Global Intellectual History , edited by Moyn Samuel Sartori Andrew , 134 – 54 . New York : Columbia University Press , 2013 . Jordheim Helge . “Against Periodization: Koselleck's...

... of overlapping desires, experiences, and expectations connected to histories of migration, settlement, and return, as well as attitudes toward death and beliefs about the afterlife. Consequently, the corpse offers a compelling window into the transnational afterlives of migration and empire. 95. Mehuet...

...Alexander Horstmann Duke University Press 2007 The Tablighi Jama’at, Transnational Islam, and the Transformation of the Self between Southern Thailand and South Asia Alexander Horstmann...

...Noorhaidi Hasan Duke University Press 2007 The Salafi Movement in Indonesia: Transnational Dynamics and Local Development Noorhaidi Hasan n the mid-1980s Indonesia began witnessing the expansion of the so-called Salafi Da‘wa movement, made evident...

...Paulo G. Pinto Duke University Press 2007 Pilgrimage, Commodities, and Religious Objectifi cation: The Making of Transnational Shiism between Iran and Syria Paulo G. Pinto ny visitor to the pilgrimage sites of Lourdes in France, Mashhad in Iran, or Varanasi in India...

...Dietrich Reetz Duke University Press 2007 The Deoband Universe: What Makes a Transcultural and Transnational Educational Movement of Islam? Dietrich Reetz hen the inspiration of Deobandi thought for purist Islamic groups and radical mili- tants across a number...

...Heinz Ickstadt © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 American Studies as Area Studies as Transnational Studies? A European Perspective Heinz Ickstadt hat old concepts may regain vitality when put to new uses can hardly be doubted. It is therefore...

... t Introduction: i o n a l t Transnational Migrations of Identity...

... Jean Feminisms Transnational for Challenge A Perspective in Human Rights Advocacy: The Circuitous Origins theof Gender emerged were...

... Sciences (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press). After Area Studies: A Return to a Transnational Africa?* William G. Martin 1. The Futures of Area and African Studies which places in jeopardy the foundations of area How will the worlds beyond the borders...

... distinctly modern, transnational cultural practices emerged in Istanbul's illustrated press, determining the parameters, albeit ambiguous, around modern life. One such debate centered upon jazz and its respective dances, namely the Charleston. Jazz represented a distinctively interwar, transnational sound...

...Madeleine Dobie Since the landmark intervention of Edward Said, the “Orient” has been widely rejected as a repository of European projections of alterity, and the Mediterranean is variously embraced as a promising framework for cross-cultural relations and transnational scholarship and rejected...

... globalization, this publishing endeavor formed a node connecting transnational modernist art and literary circuits with book publishing and was thus paradigmatic of new forms of visuality of the Arabic book. This materiality was enabled by a network of changes in the visual arts, printing technologies...