Format:
1 Online-Ressource (229 pages)
ISBN:
9781472419149
Series Statement:
Studies in Migration and Diaspora
Content:
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This book investigates the online organization of, and exchanges within, the global Indian diaspora. Bringing together research from around the world and presenting studies drawn from the US, Europe and India, it engages with theoretical and methodological debates concerning the shaping and transformation of migrant culture in emerging sites of sociality, and explores issues such as religion, citizenship, nationalism, region and caste as they relate to Indian identity in global, transnational contexts. With detailed empirical case studies showing both how members of the Indian diaspora connect with one other and 'life at home' and how institutions in India maintain such links, Indian Transnationalism Online sheds light on the ways in which information and communication technology functions as both a catalyst and indicator of contemporary socio-cultural change. As such it will be of interest to sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and studies of cultural studies working in the areas of migration, transnationalism and ethnic studies
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- Notes on Contributors -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary -- Introduction: Migrant Transnationalism and the Internet -- Section I: Identity -- 1 Performing Transnational Identity Online: Women Blogging from Domestic Spaces -- 2 The Trans-Indian: Perspectives on Real vs. Virtual Identity in the Age of the Internet -- 3 From the German Periphery - On Ethnographic Explorations of Indian Transnationalism Online -- 4 'ThirdSpace' as Transnational Space -- 5 Online Connections, Online Yatras -- 6 Cyberspace, the Globalisation of Hinduism, and Protocols of Citizenship in the Digital Age -- Section II: Power -- 7 (Re-)connecting with the Indian Diaspora from the 'Homeland' -- 8 Is Guruji Online? Internet Advice Forums and Transnational Encounters -- 9 Globalisation and the Transnationalism of 'Dalit' Identity: Probings from Modern India -- Conclusion The Diasporic Web: Reflexive Dialogue and Agentive Awareness -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472419132
Additional Edition:
Print version Sahoo, Ajaya Kumar Indian Transnationalism Online : New Perspectives on Diaspora Farnham : Taylor & Francis,c2014 ISBN 9781472419132
Language:
English
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