The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field.

Over the past three decades, the term 'diaspora' has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity-presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies

This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world.

The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book:

• Presents new and original theory, research, and essays
• Employs unique methodological and conceptual debates
• Offers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers
• Explores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and media

• Applies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject
  Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.

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List of Figures and Tables ix

Notes on Contributors xi

Series Editors' Preface xix

Acknowledgments xxi

1 Diasporas, Media, and Culture: Exploring Dimensions of Human Mobility and Connectivity in the Era of Global Interdependency 1
Roza Tsagarousianou and Jessica Retis

Part I Roots and Routes: The Nature of Diaspora(s): Their Relation to Nation, Ethnicity, Religion, Societies of Provenance, and Societies of Settlement 21

2 Diasporas: Changing Meanings and Limits of the Concept 23
Robin Cohen

3 Digital Diasporas: Beyond the Buzzword: Toward a Relational Understanding of Mobility and Connectivity 31
Laura Candidatu, Koen Leurs, and Sandra Ponzanesi

4 The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons: Cultural Crossroads and the Paradoxes of Identity 49
Thomas Hylland Eriksen

5 Diaspora and the Plurality of Its Cosmopolitan Imaginaries 63
Myria Georgiou

6 Beyond the Concept of Diaspora?: Reevaluating our Theoretical Toolkit Through the Study of Muslim Transnationalism 77
Roza Tsagarousianou

7 Doing Diasporic Media Research: Methodological Challenges and Innovations 97
Kevin Smets

Part II Home and Away: Transnationalism, Localism, and the Construction of Diasporic Identity 113

8 Homogenizing Heterogeneity in Transnational Contexts: Latin American Diasporas and the Media in the Global North 115
Jessica Retis

9 Unraveling Diaspora and Hybridity: Brazil and the Centrality of Geopolitical Context in Analyzing Culture in Global Postcolonial Space 137
Niall Brennan

10 Media, Racism, and Haitian Immigration in Brazil 151
Denise Cogo and Terezinha Silva

11 China's Vessel on the Voyage of Globalization: The Soft Power Agenda and Diasporic Media Responses 165
Wanning Sun

12 Digital Diaspora: Social Alliances Beyond the Ethnonational Bond 179
Saskia Witteborn

13 Transnational Mediated Commemoration of Migrant Deaths at the Borders of Europe 193
Karina Horsti

Part III Cultural Politics in the Diaspora: Diasporic Public Spheres/Spaces, Identity Politics, and Diasporic Activism 207

14 The Politics of Diasporic Integration: The Case of Iranians in Britain 209
Annabelle Sreberny and Reza Gholami

15 Scripting Indianness: Remediating Narratives of Diasporic Affiliation and Authenticity 225
Radha S. Hegde

16 Media Representations of Diasporic Cultures and the Impact on Audiences: Polarization, Power, and the Limits of Interculturality 239
Miquel RodrigoAlsina, Antonio Pineda, and Leonarda GarciaJimenez

17 Toward a Democratization of the Public Space?: Challenges for the TwentyFirst Century 255
Alicia Ferrandez Ferrer

18 Decolonizing National Public Spheres: Indigenous Migrants as Transnational Counterpublics 269
Antonieta Mercado

19 The Power of Communication Networks for the Political Formation of a New Social Actor in Chile: The Case of Migrant Action Movement 283
Ximena Poo

Part IV Nation and Diasporas: Diasporas, Nationalism, and the Making of National Cultures 295

20 Making National Cultures: Sindhis in Indonesia's Media Industries 297
Thomas Barker

21 Reporting Violence and Naming Migrants in Assam: The Coverage of AntiBengali Muslim Violence in Assam by The Assam Tribune Newspaper 311
Musab Iqbal

22 Media and Nationalism Beyond Borders 329
Janroj Yilmaz Keles

23 Online Diasporas: Beyond LongDistance Nationalisms 343
Angeliki Monnier

24 Somali Development Agents as Development Communicators: Visions and Religious Challenges 359
Michele Gonnelli 25 The Mediation of Migration and States of Exception 373
*Miyase Christensen and Christian Christensen...