Kurdish Diaspora Online: From Imagined Community to Managing Communities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137513465)

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.


Author: Jowan Mahmod
ISBN-10: 1137513462
ISBN-13: 9781137513465
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/20/2016
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.12w x 0.77d