On digital crossings in Europe

Ponzanesi, Sandra; Leurs, Koen

doi:10.1386/cjmc.5.1.3_1

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“…Similar developments are filling in missing links in the digital humanities. Postcolonial digital humanities is now an emerging field, digital media providing the most comprehensive platform to rethink transnational spaces and contexts (Nakamura 2002;Ponzanesi and Leurs 2014). These new assemblages pursue the aims of classical postcolonial studies, across the reterritorialized digital humanities platform, into the complexity of minor science.…”

Section: The Critical Posthumanitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Posthuman Knowledges

Braidotti¹

2017

South Atlantic Quarterly

105

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The convergence of posthumanism and postanthropocentrism is currently producing a field of posthuman critical enquiry that is more than the sum of its parts and points to a qualitative leap in new directions (Braidotti 2013). The critique of the humanist ideal of Man as the allegedly universal measure of all things, on the one hand, and the rejection of species hierarchy and human exceptionalism, on the other, are equally interdisciplinary in character, but they refer to different theoretical and disciplinary genealogies. They converge, however, in enabling the emergence of posthuman knowledges. By way of introduction, let me say that I practice critical thinking by drawing cartographies of the power operational in and immanent to the production of discourses and practices circulating in our sociopolitical order and integral to our subject formation (Foucault 1970). This approach is supported by two main theoretical pillars: the first is feminist epistemology, with its emphasis on the situated and accountable nature of knowledge (Harding 1986; Rich 1987; Haraway 1988; Hill Collins 1991). The second is a monistic neomaterialist philosophy inspired by Gilles Deleuze, which assumes all matter is one and that

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Section: The Critical Posthumanitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Critical Posthuman Knowledges

Braidotti¹

2017

South Atlantic Quarterly

105

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“…These events, together with the epidemic of building walls, are strong reactions to what may be, as predicted by cultural theorists and sociologists such as Stuart Hall (1997) and Ulf Hannerz (1996), the erosion of national formations. The constructions of new walls represent a swan-song for the conventional notion of the nexus between identity and territory, in an increasingly linked, hybridized and fluid modern world (Brown, cited in Ponzanesi & Leurs, 2014). New forms of cooperation are emerging, shaped by common ideas, values, and interests.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Online Communities and New Identity Making: The Curious Case of the Kurdish Diaspora

Mahmod

2019

J Ethn Cult Stud

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The central argument in this paper is that the intimately set of processes—diaspora, transnationalism, and communication technologies—are creating new maps of identities, which are diverging from traditional forms of identity-making within the physical and national territory. By delving into how this triangulated relationship brings out a series of new identity experiences, the aim here is to demonstrate how this can serve as a timely example in a wider context of how traditional spheres of identity (i.e. ethnicity, culture, gender, and religion), which have hitherto provided people with firm identities, are being contested in this age of digital technologies and new transnational and global collaborations. Based on an interdisciplinary and comparative research study, including multi-sited (online-offline) methodology, the empirical examples unveil how diasporic Kurds have through their online activities developed transnational and global consciousness that goes beyond the national or dual diasporic consciousness. They display a growing awareness of identity difference not only between diaspora and homeland Kurds, but also between Kurdish diasporas in various European countries. While the struggle for nation-state building and identity rights are still a central part of their agenda, the new opportunities for self-representation in the online world suggest novel articulations of identity which are challenging old notions of belonging and community. Therefore, rather than speaking of the inflationary “imagined diaspora,” this paper presents the fluidity of diasporic identities and how victim diaspora can morph into transnational and global diaspora. The acknowledgement of identity difference and the de-mythologization of the homeland complicates the concept of the imagined community which until now has not been sufficiently recognized in academic writing.

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“…Although there is growing attention for migration and ICTs, a general "paucity of research" on the topic remains (McGregor and Siegel 2013, p. 2), this area is particularly "under-researched" in the field of migration studies (Oiarzabal andReips 2012, p. 1334). In media and communication studies, the impact of ICTs on migrants in Europe also remains relatively uncharted (Ponzanesi and Leurs 2014;Leurs and Ponzanesi 2018). These gaps urgently need to be addressed, as the "information migration society" may offer new opportunities, but also constructs a "new distribution of power" (Borkert et al 2009, pp.…”

Section: Introduction: Researching Migration In the Digital Eramentioning

confidence: 99%