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Kurdish Diaspora Online : From Imagined Community to Managing Communities / by Jowan Mahmod.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mahmod, Jowan, Author.
- Series:
- The Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication, 2945-6126
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--Politics and government.
- Middle East.
- Political science.
- Communication.
- Ethnology--Middle East.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- Media and Communication.
- Middle Eastern Culture.
- Human Migration.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Middle Eastern Politics.
- Political Science.
- Media and Communication.
- Middle Eastern Culture.
- Human Migration.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137513472
- 1137513470
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