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Trialectics of Migrant and Global Representation: Real, Imaginary, and Online Spaces of Empowerment in Cybermohalla

Authors :
Patrice M. Buzzanell
Vinita Agarwal
Source :
Western Journal of Communication. 72:331-348
Publication Year :
2008
Publisher :
Informa UK Limited, 2008.

Abstract

This textual exploration of Cyber mohalla, an online journal authored by inhabitants of a temporary neighborhood in Delhi, India, offers a postmodernist critical spatial feminist critique of urban displacement and marginalization. It draws from feminist architectural critiques and cultural analyses of globalization to explore the writers' subjectivity within their spatiotemporal practices. Our examination of reterritorialization discourses reveals five themes addressing notions of structure, impermanence, social relations, urban disorder, and nature. We argue that the act of subjectivizing spaces of marginalization is not only a project of destabilizing resistance but one that examines essentialist notions of difference constraining agency and choice.

Details

ISSN :
17451027 and 10570314
Volume :
72
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Western Journal of Communication
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........056300ef1c25072b4e1e30a017bb03cd
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1080/10570310802445975