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Transnational Lives and the Media Re-Imagining Diaspora Edited by Olga G. Bailey, Myria Georgiou and Ramaswami Harindranath 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page i Transnational Lives and the Media 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page ii Also by the editors Olga G. Bailey UNDERSTANDING ALTERNATIVE MEDIA (co-author) Myria Georgiou DIASPORIC MEDIA ACROSS EUROPE: Multicultural Societies and the Universalism–Particularism Continuum DIASPORA, IDENTITY AND THE MEDIA: Diasporic Transnationalism and Mediated Spatialities CITIES OF DIFFERENCE: Cultural Juxtapositions and Urban Politics of Representation Ramaswami Harindranath PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL CULTURES THE CRASH CONTROVERSY APPROACHES TO AUDIENCES 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page iii Transnational Lives and the Media Re-Imagining Diaspora Edited by Olga G. Bailey Nottingham Trent University Myria Georgiou Leeds University Ramaswami Harindranath The University of Melbourne 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page iv Selection and editorial matter © Olga G. Bailey, Myria Georgiou and Ramaswami Harindranath 2007 Chapters © their authors 2007 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2007 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 13: 978–0–230–01983–6 hardback ISBN 10: 0–230–01983–8 hardback This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Transnational lives and the media : re-imagining diaspora / editors: Olga G. Bailey, Myria Georgiou, R. Harindranath. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 10: 0-230-01983-8 (cloth) ISBN 13: 978–0–230–01983–6 (cloth) 1. Transnationalism. 2. Ethnicity. 3. Mass media and minorities. 4. Ethnic mass media. 5. Mass media and ethnic relations. 6. Mass media and culture. I. Bailey, Olga G., 1958 – II. Georgiou, Myria, 1971 – III. Harindranath, Ramaswami, 1959. JV6035.T73 2007 304.8–dc22 2007060028 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham and Eastbourne 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page v In the memory of Roger Silverstone This page intentionally left blank 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page vii Contents List of Figures xii Acknowledgements xiii Note on Contributors xiv Introduction: Exploration of Diaspora in the Context of Media Culture 1 Olga Guedes Bailey, Myria Georgiou and Ramaswami Haridranath Diaspora and media culture 2 Conceptual and methodological explorations 3 Transnational and diasporic politics 5 Media, diaspora and everyday life 6 Voices of diaspora 7 Part I Conceptual and Epistemological Explorations 1 Transnational Crossroads for Media and Diaspora: Three Challenges for Research 11 Myria Georgiou ‘Where are you from?’ 13 Three epistemological challenges 17 To conclude 28 2 Diaspora, Multiculturalism and Transnational Media: The Case of Zee TV 33 Shehina Fazal Introduction 33 Diaspora understandings 33 Multiculturalism 39 Transnational media 41 Zee TV: an outline 45 Zee TV: diasporic, multicultural and transnational? 47 Conclusion 49 vii 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page viii viii Contents 3 Art in the Age of Siege 52 Nikos Papastergiadis Introduction 52 Mapping mobilities 53 Mobility in art and culture 55 The shock of difference 57 Artists in opposition to border politics 59 Artists as border shifters 64 Waiting for the Barbarians 67 4 Re-imagining Diaspora Through Ethno-mimesis: Humiliation, Human Dignity and Belonging 72 Maggie O’Neill Introduction 72 Re-imagining diaspora: the asylum–migration nexus 73 Diasporic identities: humiliation, identity, and belonging 75 Governance in the UK 78 Re-imagining the asylum–migration nexus through a politics of representation 81 Part II Diasporic Politics: Tensions and Promises 5 Transnational Islam and the Internet 97 Eugenia Siapera Introduction 97 Multiple transnationalisms and Islam 98 Locating transnational Islam online 100 Conclusion: locating transnational Islam 110 6 The Sámi Media, State Broadcasting and Transnational Indigeneity 115 Lia Markelin and Charles Husband Introduction 15 The setting: Sámi and the Sámi media in the Nordic states 117 Identities and the logics of media development 118 Sámi broadcast media and media co-operation 119 The political economy of Sámi media 120 Consequences for Sámi broadcasting and broadcast co-operation 127 The present and future 129 0230019838_01_Prexviii.pdf 27/6/07 10:40 AM Page ix Contents ix 7 Refugee Communities and the Politics of Cultural Identity 133 Ramaswami Haridranath Introduction 13 Lived experience and the formation of collective identity 135 Subaltern agency and its appeal to experience 137 Subaltern speech and the politics of recognition 141 8 Ethnic Media, Transnational Politics: Turkish Migrant Media in Germany 149 Kira Kosnick Introduction 149 ‘Having a voice’ in the media 150 Speaking in ‘one’s own voice’ 158 The public service domain 160 The Open Channel 161 The commercial domain 163 Prospects 164 Conclusion 165 Part III Transnational Lives and the Media 9 Diasporic Mediated Spaces 175 Sonja de Leeuw and Ingegerd Rydin Introduction 175 Research methodology 176 Negotiating identities and media use 177 Diasporic television viewing 181 National television viewing 185 Global television viewing 187 Internet and computer use: keeping in touch 188 Other media 190 Mediated spaces of identity 190 10 Diaspora: An Urban Communication Paradigm 195 Gary Gumpert and Susan J. Drucker Introduction 195 Diaspora and urban communication 196 The case study of the Greek diaspora in New York 200 Conclusions 208
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