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Culture Beyond Country: Strategies of Inclusion in the Global Iranian Diaspora

by Amy Malek
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781479831753
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: New York University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press
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  • Pages: 368
  • Original Price: USD 30.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 499 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Anthropology / General

Offers an in-depth exploration of the Iranian diaspora and the negotiation of belonging

With an estimated 5 to 8 million people spread across the globe, the Iranian diaspora has become a visible and dynamic cultural presence--especially in North America and Europe. Faced with shallow or distorted portrayals, diasporic Iranians have responded to persistent misrepresentations and marginalization by turning to culture as a deliberate strategy of inclusion. Reshaping how their stories are told, community organizers, artists, and entrepreneurs are actively challenging public narratives, asserting new cultural imaginaries, and navigating the terms of inclusion and exclusion, putting new visions of Iranian identity into the public eye.

Drawing on transnational ethnographic fieldwork and over 125 semi-structured interviews conducted over the course of 16 years, Culture Beyond Country offers the first comparative ethnography of these cultural strategies of inclusion, examining the distinct practices and experiences of Iranians in three key cities of the diaspora, Los Angeles, Stockholm, and Toronto. Attending to the institutional and ideological forces that come to bear on Iranian cultural organizers in these three diasporic locations, Amy Malek examines how immigrants and their descendants negotiate belonging in response to various and shifting state approaches to cultural citizenship. The volume examines how state multicultural policy influences who is empowered to represent Iranian culture, how local factors shape expressions of Iranian identity across the diaspora, and how these representations are contested within Iranian communities.

Providing a compelling transnational study of immigrant multiculturalism, cultural citizenship, and inclusion across the global Iranian diaspora, Culture Beyond Country showcases not only how the process of representing Iranian culture in the diaspora generates competing views on what it means to be Iranian, but also how competing modes of belonging subvert and reinforce existing power relations across local, national, and transnational scales.

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