‘Don’t discriminate against minority nationalities’: practicing Tibetan ethnicity on social media

Grant, Andrew

doi:10.1080/14631369.2016.1178062

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“…This contributes to cultural survival and efforts to combat injustice on and offline and carries important implications not only for Roma beyond the Czech Republic, but also for those who experience the loss of home or live in places that are hostile toward them. There are similarities in how Roma utilize this online space to other minoritized groups, for example, creating a place to cultivate shared identities and causes (Georgiou, 2006; Grant, 2017). Furthermore, the article contributes to the development of research related to social media use among Roma—an emerging area of research (Hajská, 2019).…”

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“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

Hatef

2022

New Media & Society

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This article examines social media as a site for identity negotiation and community building among Roma in the Czech Republic. As Roma are continually denied authority over the construction of their identities, their Czech-ness, claim to physical spaces, and generally made to feel that they do not belong—both in the material and symbolic sense—this article examines how individual activists and community organizers utilize media as a resource to combat spatial alienation. This ethnographic study pays close attention to the cultivation of community through Facebook groups, the utilization of groups and event pages to organize, and the affordances and challenges of moving online efforts offline. At the same time, this article explores tensions and contradictions of these digital spaces that may involve issues like the lack of resources and the fragmentation of community—and of communal space—by such variables as age, language, and technological access and literacy. Ultimately, this article suggests that social media may embody both emotional and material places manifesting as additional/alternative places to negotiate identities and belonging for Roma in the Czech Republic. The findings of this research carry important implications for those with complicated relationships to home(lands), including geographically displaced people.

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“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

Hatef

2022

New Media & Society

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“…Emily Yeh examines how urbanization achieves state territorialization and the transformation of Tibetan subjectivities (Yeh, 2013). Other issues addressed in this literature include dispossession and displacement (Tashi Nyima 2011;Hillman, 2013); the erosion of communal sovereignty and the role of authoritarian capitalism in urbanization (Makley, 2018); the ways urbanization places assimilatory pressures on Tibetans (Grant, 2018a), and exposes them to discrimination (Grant, 2017); and how the centralization of government services drives rural abandonment and urbanization (Tsering Bum, 2018). This research is broadly demonstrative of the Anglophone interest in minorities in the PRC primarily as examples of "marginalized urban lives" (Engebretsen, 2016).…”

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Urbanizing Minority Minzu in the PRC: Insights from the Literature on Settler Colonialism

Wang

Roche

2021

Modern China

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This article provides a synthesis and critical review of the literature on urban minority minzu 民族 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The vast majority of the Chinese-language literature on minorities in cities adopts a state-centric view through the lens of stability and integration, focusing on how minorities can adapt to urban life for the purpose of creating a “harmonized” society. This statist narrative not only denies the subjectivity of minorities in the city but also constrains the understandings of the dynamics of urban indigeneity. In this article, we draw on the literature of urban Indigenous peoples in settler colonial contexts to suggest new ways of examining the urban experience of minority minzu in the PRC. We suggest that this literature provides useful insights that help center the subjectivities and agency of Indigenous people in the PRC’s cities. Literature on urban minorities in the PRC can be expanded by engaging with the Indigenous urbanization literature to include coverage of three topics: representation (how minority people are shown as belonging to the city), mobilization (the use of urban space by minority people to pursue social, cultural, and political projects), and mobility (movement and interconnectedness between rural homelands and the city).

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“…Asia 2 (2021) 70-98 The aspects mentioned above of how media shape religious experience, the connections between social practices and online practices, and the use of different semiotic resources to build cultural or ethnolinguistic affiliations are aspects that I encounter in the data analyzed. Moreover, these aspects are worth applying to online China, a domain highly controlled by the State, but also a place to develop cultural trends and address popular or sensitive topics (Herold, 2008;Leibold, 2011;Liu, 2011;Ng, 2015;Grant, 2017).…”

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Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

Cabras

2022

Int. J. Islam Asia

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During the last few decades, Muslim communities in China have experienced a religious revival in which belonging to a global Muslim community has been a central element. At the same time, in recent years, the State’s campaign of Sinicization of Islam (yisilan zhongguohua) has supported Chinese nationalism and targeted symbols of Islam that are alleged to distance the believers from patriotism. This study explores the capacity for texts, language, and visual choices to build and shape sociality and forms of devotion and to reflect social and political changes. The research examines visual posting on the multipurpose app Weixin (WeChat), providing insights into local forms of religiousness, self-representation, and aspirational identities of part of the Muslim community in Xining (Qinghai province, Northwest China).

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‘Don’t discriminate against minority nationalities’: practicing Tibetan ethnicity on social media

Cited by 21 publications

References 10 publications

“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

“The Facebook is a state of Roma”: Negotiating identities, building communities, and belongingness online among Roma in the Czech Republic

Urbanizing Minority Minzu in the PRC: Insights from the Literature on Settler Colonialism

Technology-Mediated Communication and Representations of Islam in Northwest China: Insights from Visual Postings on Weixin

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