Diaspora-in-Place

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This course proposes a thinking of the diaspora that is not based on/in the notion or history of dispersal but rather offers the diaspora as a place from which the subject does not dislocate itself; that place from which the subject is not deracinated but yet that place that cannot, as it were, hold the subject in place. The diaspora as not being removed from or being moved to but, instead, the locale from which the subject can take its leave without leaving. The diaspora-in-place: the possibility of being gone without leaving.