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Kurdish Diaspora Online

From Imagined Community to Managing Communities

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Authors:
  1. Jowan Mahmod

    1. Uppsala, Sweden

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  • Presents original data on Kurdish diaspora communities to show how digital technologies are challenging traditional national identity
  • Updates the "imagined community" conception of nations for the digital media age
  • Utilizes a multidisciplinary approach and multifaceted methologies to examine the many dimensions of diasporic community

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Multiculturalism in Imagined Communities

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-17

    3. Multiculturalism Debates, Policies, and Concepts

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 19-36

    4. Nations, Diaspora, Identity, and Alternative Explorations

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      Pages 37-64

    5. State Struggles in the Middle East and the Kurdish Diaspora

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 65-84

  3. Arriving on the Scene

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 85-85
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    2. “Is it OK?”–Challenging Gender Roles

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 87-126

    3. “Am I a Real Kurd?”: Deconstructing Kurdish Identity

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 127-162

    4. “My Kurdistan Chapter”: Kurdish Repatriation

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      Pages 163-175

  4. Consciousness, Information Technology, and New Directions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Towards a Weakened Imagined Community

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 179-205

    3. Conclusion

      • Jowan Mahmod
      Pages 207-214

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 215-243
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Uppsala, Sweden

    Jowan Mahmod

About the author

Jowan Mahmod completed her PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She obtained her BA and MA in Media and Communications at Uppsala University, Sweden. She has worked previously as a PR consultant, editor-in-chief, and editor.

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