This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. The villages of Meganisi, a Greek island, are tightly-knit communities, and this study explores the basis on which their solidarity and sense of identity are constructed and reconstructed.

The public sphere of the Manchester Muslim diaspora is a place of intense local micro-politics of honour and shame, debated in the globalized language of world affairs, and enacted through public performance. This work reveals the multi-centred world among Manchester Pakistanis.