The politics and poetics of Indian digital diasporas [electronic resource] : from Desi to Brown / edited by Yasmin Jiwani, Arjun Tremblay and Mohita Bhatia.
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities. This book brings together an international network of scholars, both...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2025.
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| Series: | Routledge/ASAA South Asian publications series.
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| Summary: | The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas explores the emancipatory potential and pitfalls of digital platforms and how well or how poorly they reflect intra-communal diversities within South Asian diasporic communities. This book brings together an international network of scholars, both established and emerging, to explore South Asian diasporic communities in the United States, Canada, Australia, and the U.K. It is a comparative cross-national analysis of the intersection of digital technologies and South Asian diasporas. The book centres on three key themes: the ever-presence of digital spaces and the importance of exploring them as focal points for defining and contesting identities; an exploration of how home' is represented in and across South Asian diasporic communities; and intra-communal diversity in South Asian diasporic communities. The chapters show how digital spaces sometimes create unprecedented opportunities for diasporic communities to mobilise (multi)cultures, sexuality, race, and queerness within South Asian diasporic communities and to move beyond Desi' and Brown' as homogenising identifiers. The contributors also demonstrate that digital spaces can be and have been used to reassert internal hegemonies far from homelands. Examining the discursive meanings of South Asian-ness - Desi', Brown', South Asians'- the book foregrounds how it is defined, performed, and contested through digital platforms, in ways that redefine the concept of diaspora in innovative, non-territorialized, polyphonic, variegated, and dialogic ways. A novel contribution to the intersection of global digital inequalities, digital cultures and the South Asian diaspora, this book will be of interest to a wide scholarly audience of digital media, South Asian diaspora, culture and ethnicity, race, and the politics of resistance and counter-hegemonic mobilisations. Chapters 1 and 7 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 163 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781040184301 1040184308 9781003454342 1003454348 9781040184424 1040184421 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 09, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Yasmin Jiwani is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University, Canada. She was also the Concordia University Research Chair in Intersectionality, Violence, and Resistance (2017-2022). Her research interests include mediations of race, gender, and violence in the press, as well as representations of women of colour in popular media. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of scholarly journals and anthologies. Arjun Tremblay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. His scholarship focuses on exploring the near and longer-term prospects of the politics of solidarity in and across deeply diverse democracies. He is the co-editor of Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective: A New Politics of Diversity for the 21st Century? (Routledge, 2023). He was an Associate Editor at the Canadian Journal of Political Science and is currently the co-Editor in Chief of the Review of Constitutional Studies. Mohita Bhatia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Saint Mary's University, Halifax. She is the co-editor of Religion and Politics in Jammu and Kashmir (Routledge, 2020). Her research interests include everyday life, refugees, ethnic conflicts, quotidian nationalism, citizenship performances, border-making, qualitative research, and digital ethnography. |