In order to confirm that Khan understands resilience as a 'trans-systemic' and 'oppositional' force (Coleman, 2017 O'Brien, 2015) instead of merely accepting neoliberal proclaims of fear and separation, I analyse how he represented his trajectory of diaspora in DESH (2011), how he offered a new reading for the 7 July 2005 bombings in the London Olympics Opening Ceremony with 'Abide with Me' (2012) and how he denounced and subverted the transnational structures of gender discrimination in both 'Dust' (2014) and Until the Lions (2016). Khan's productions describe resilience as means to break from old systems of control and domination to experience a historical transformation and evolution that is corollary to that of his own artistic language and typology of migration in British contemporary history. The volume adopts a novel interdisciplinary approach making this key reading for researchers in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, discursive psychology, geography, and linguistic anthropology.ĪBSTRACT: Akram Khan, British dancer and choreographer of Bangladeshi descent, has represented British identities incorporating his testimony of diaspora in contemporary British Cultural Studies. While the theme of place-identity has been explored especially in a context of migration, the novelty of the volume lies in its investigation of the multiple contexts in which identity is examined prominence is nonetheless assigned to processes of displacement and uprooting often combined with increased social inequality that make the investigation of ways in which place is discursively constructed and of the roles it plays in processes of self-presentation and identity creation so crucial. Narrative practice therefore becomes the context and practice through which these participants construct their local identities and their places, both understood as dynamic and in continuous evolution. This collection explores how people use language to construct the relation between their self and the location they occupy, or to which they wish to belong.

Certainty by madeleine thien