ABSTRACT
A classical take on diaspora assumes one great fiction: that cultures remain contained through time, and across geographies. We know, though, that culture travels and culture unravels. This chapter deals with the changes and connections that occur in diasporic contact zones (Pratt 1992) and how these travel as diasporas do. In this chapter, I outline the concept of ‘transversal crossing and diasporic intersections’, which I employ to describe the everyday practices and associated transformations that occur in situations of lived difference.
