The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas From Desi to Brown
Bhatia, Mohita
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas From Desi to Brown - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 - 1 online resource - Routledge / Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series .
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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.
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eng
9781003454342 9781032593531 9781032593562
10.4324/9781003454342 doi
Ethnic studies
Interdisciplinary studies
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Brown Desi digital diaspora indian diaspora poetics Politics South Asian
The Politics and Poetics of Indian Digital Diasporas From Desi to Brown - Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 - 1 online resource - Routledge / Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) South Asian Series .
Free-to-read
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.
Open licence
eng
9781003454342 9781032593531 9781032593562
10.4324/9781003454342 doi
Ethnic studies
Interdisciplinary studies
Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects
Regional / International studies
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
Brown Desi digital diaspora indian diaspora poetics Politics South Asian
