Specific term required. It’s not “identity,” but Rogers Brubaker applies this concept to itself in an article listing three criteria that preserve its analytical utility. This concept is called “a utopian eruption of space into the linear temporal order of” modernity in a work that uses Fela Kuti’s influences to illustrate its “living memory of the changing same.” Robin Cohen’s influential typology of this concept includes “victim,” “trade,” and “labor” types. Classic examples of “politics” or “governance” named for these communities include a tax on them levied by Eritrea and the BJP courting support from “NRIs.” In The Black Atlantic, Paul Gilroy contrasts essentialist identities with one of these communities created by the African slave trade. For 10 points, post-exile Jews are the paradigmatic example of what communities dispersed from a real or imagined homeland? ■END■
ANSWER: diaspora [or word forms of diasporic; accept diaspora politics or diaspora governance or diaspora tax; prompt on expatriate communities, transnational communities, immigrant communities, or word forms of any] (NRIs are non-resident Indians.)
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