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Diasporic Futures
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A01=Evi Chatzipanagiotidou
Author_Evi Chatzipanagiotidou
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conflict
Cyprus
diaspora
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future
hope
memory
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- ISBN 9781399502610
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Connected to a divided island, British Cypriots have participated in the reproduction of conflict and partition but have also been active agents of peacebuilding and reconciliation. Focusing on the latter, Diasporic Futures traces the transnational politics of Greek Cypriots in London during a significant historical period in which space opened for diasporic involvement in peace politics at 'home'. It applies a temporal framework and proposes that diasporas and transnationalism - often analysed through an emphasis on space - must also be understood through an investigation of time. The book argues that diasporas do not exist linearly, but are made, reorganised or enervated in and by time, aggregating at particular historical points and dissipating at others. Moreover, Diasporic Futures illustrates that, although imagined as anchored in the past and 'out of sync', diasporas are 'horizonal', made by their orientations towards the future and a politics of hope.
Evi Chatzipanagiotidou is Reader in Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on migration and diasporas, conflict and displacement, and the politics of memory and loss through long-term fieldwork in Cyprus, the UK, Greece and Turkey.
