Reconceptualising diasporic intellectual networks: mobile scholars in transnational space |
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| Authors: | Qiongqiong Chen Jill P Koyama |
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| Institution: | Department of Educational Leadership and Policy , State University of New York at Buffalo , Buffalo , NY , USA |
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| Abstract: | In this article, we explore how Chinese scholars in the USA recount their transnational collaborations and linkages. Guided by post-colonial theories and cultural studies of transnational academic mobility, we utilise in-depth interviews to resituate the scholars' experiences within a discourse of diasporic intellectual networks. We argue that their movement is not simply a transfer from one physical location to another, but rather that the movement itself constitutes a new space of identification, of belonging and of global imagination. We conclude by considering the transnational implications of local agency for global connectivity and emergence of new subjectivities in a fluid global world. |
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| Keywords: | academic mobility transnational space diasporic network identity and subjectivity |
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