Uprootings/Regroundings

New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness.

PlatesNotes on contributorsSECTION 1: BODIES AT HOME AND AWAY1.still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a postcolonising societyAileen Moreton-Robinson 2. The home of language: a pedagogy of the stammerSneja Gunew3.'Dis-orientalisms': displaced bodies/embodied displacements in contemporary Palestinian artGannit Ankori4. Taking (a) place: female embodiment and the re-grounding of communityIrene GedalofSECTION 2: FAMILY TIES5. Making home: queer migrations and motions of attachmentAnne-Marie Fortier6. Nostalgia, desire, diaspora: South Asian sexualities in motionGayatri Gopinath7. Global modernities and the gendered epic of the 'Irish Empire'Breda Gray8. 'They're family!': cultural geographies of relatedness in popular genealogyCatherine NashSECTION 3: TRANS/NATIONS AND BORDER CROSSINGS9. Transporting the subject: technologies of mobility and location in an era of globalisationCaren Kaplan10. Technological frontiers and the politics of mobilityGinette Verstraete11. The Difference Borders Make: (Il)legality, Migration and Trafficking in Italy among eastern European Women in ProstitutionRutvica Andrejasevic 12. Creolization in discourses of global cultureMimi Sheller