Интимният „друг“: нации и диаспори във време на глобализация
Intimate Others: Nations and Diasporas in an Age of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: The author comments in detail K. Tololyan's observation that the diasporic communities are sometimes the paradigmatic Other of the nation-state and at other times its ally, lobby, or precursor. He further suggests that the relationship of diaspora to nationalism is not extrinsic, causal or historical but intrinsic and contradictory; with the contradiction to be understood in the dialectical sense of a unity of opposites, with the one set against the other but at the same time incomprehensible without reference to the other. Hence, there is a fundamental contradiction built into the diaspora discourse that while it seeks to negate the nation-state, it is itself incomprehensible without reference to it. The analysis of this contradiction may be crucial, as the author suggests, for distinguishing a critical diaspora discourse from a conservative, reactionary, or establishmentarian one. These observations are largely commented with reference to Asian, and more particularly, Chinese diasporic communities.

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