Dispersion Podcast

Dispersion Episode 2 Expectations of Motherhood: You can't just leave it at the airport is live! This episode features a discussion about motherhood and diaspora. This week Journals - University of Toronto Press is featuring two articles to learn more about related topics! 👇

Mobile Motherhood: Armenian Women’s Labor Migration in the Post-Soviet Period by Armine Ishkanian.

“Is This My Mother’s Grave?”: Genocide and Diaspora in Atom Egoyan’s Family Viewing by Lisa Siraganian.

https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/diaspora.11.3.383
https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/diaspora.6.2.127

Dispersion Season 2’s fifth and final episode, One Word: Boundaries is live! This episode features a discussion about gender and diaspora. This week Journals - University of Toronto Press is featuring two articles that are to learn more about Diasporic and LGBT issues.

Susan Koshy’s article The Geography of Female Subjectivity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Diaspora examines the negotiations involved in the insertion of female subjectivity into the cultural space of “America” by focusing on the way Mukherjee’s fictions appropriate and interrogate the narratives of assimilation and feminism that provide paradigmatic texts of gender, as well as of ethnic and racial identity, in the United States and Canada.

Tamar Shirinian’s article Diasporas’ Q***r Archives: Honing the Mundane, the Personal, and the Sensorial Toward Unruly Methodological Visions explores the aesthetic practices of q***r diaspora pointing to alternative sensorial regimes.

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