Democracy, Diaspora, Territory: Europe and Cross-Border Politics

ISBN-13: 9781032087948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 192 str.

Olga Oleinikova; Jumana Bayeh

Opis

Considering democracy and diaspora through a deterritorialised lens, this book uses the post-Euromaidan Ukraine as a central case study to show how modern diasporas are actively involved in shaping democracy from a distance, and through their political activity are becoming increasingly democratised themselves.

Spis treści

1. Democracy, Diaspora and Ukraine: Thinking Beyond the Territorial Mentality  Part 1: Cross-Border Politics: Mapping the New Conceptual Terrain  2. Democracy, Diaspora and the Territorial Mentality  3. Diasporic Visions of Democracy and Territory  4. Democratic Remittances and Diaspora: Tracking the Multilayered  Political Practices of Migrants  5. Media Cultures Across Distance: The Transnational and Transcultural of Media Communication  Part 2: Territory, Democracy and the Ukrainian Diaspora  6. The Euromaidan Moment: The Making of Ukrainian Diasporic Civil Society in Poland  7. Diasporic Nation-Building: The Re-Invention of National Belonging within Ukrainian Diasporas  8. The Transnational Activism of Young Ukrainian Immigrants  9. The Digital Power of Ukrainians Abroad: Social Media Activism and Political Participation

O autorze

Olga Oleinikova is Lecturer and Director of Ukraine Democracy Initiative in the School of Communication at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. She is the winner of the Forbes 30 Under 30 award and is a finalist for the 2018 Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences in Australia Future Leader Prize.

Jumana Bayeh is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at  Macquarie University, Australia, and the author of The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora: Representations of Place and Transnational Identity.