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Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities: The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication

Autor Jowan Mahmod
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 sep 2016
The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong implications for different articulations of identity and belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined community. The findings are based on transnational activities by Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to rethink notions of belonging and identity. Through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, and multifaceted (online-offline) methodologies, the book unveils tensions between new and old media, and how the former is not only changing social relations but also exposing existing ones. Living in two or more cultures, speaking multiple languages, and engaging in transnational practices, diaspora individuals may have created a momentum that discloses how the imagined nation is diminishing in this digital era.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137513465
ISBN-10: 1137513462
Pagini: 234
Ilustrații: XIII, 243 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2015
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction .- 1. Multiculturalism Debates, Policies, and Concepts .- 2. Nations, Diaspora, Identity and Alternative Explorations .- 3. State Struggles in the Middle East and the Kurdish Diaspora .- 4. “Is it OK?” – Challenging Gender Roles .- 5. “Am I a Real Kurd?” – Deconstructing Kurdish Identity .- 6. “My Kurdistan Chapter”: Returning Home .- 7. Towards a Weakened Imagined Community

Notă biografică

Jowan Mahmod completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She obtained her BA and MA in Media and Communications at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has worked previously as a PR consultant, editor-in-chief, and editor.

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The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong implications for different articulations of identity and belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined community. The findings are based on transnational activities by Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to rethink notions of belonging and identity. Through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, and multifaceted (online-offline) methodologies, the book unveils tensions between new and old media, and how the former is not only changing social relations but also exposing existing ones. Living in two or more cultures, speaking multiple languages, and engaging in transnational practices, diaspora individuals may have created a momentum that discloses how the imagined nation is diminishing in this digital era.

Caracteristici

Presents original data on Kurdish diaspora communities to show how digital technologies are challenging traditional national identity Updates the "imagined community" conception of nations for the digital media age Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach and multifaceted methologies to examine the many dimensions of diasporic community