Alison Blunt

Domicile and Diaspora

Anglo-Indian Women and the Spatial Politics of Home

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Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian Independence in 1947. Theoretically informed and substantively grounded, the book draws on interviews and focus groups with over150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Key themes include: imaginative geographies of Britain as fatherland and India as motherland before Independence; the establishment of Anglo-Indian homelands; Anglo-Indian migration under the British Nationality Act of 1948 and the White Australia Policy; and the spatial politics of home for Anglo-Indians today in India, Britain and Austral… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4443-9918-9
EAN: 9781444399189
Produktnummer: 13799631
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'409 KB

Über den Autor

Alison Blunt is Reader in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Travel, Gender and Imperialism (1994), the co-author of Dissident Geographies (2000), and the co-editor of Writing Women and Space (1994), Postcolonial Geographies (2002) and Cultural Geography in Practice (2003). She was awarded the Gill Memorial Award by the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers in 2002 and a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2003.