Networking the Globe: New Technologies and the Postcolonial

ISBN-13: 9781138305434 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 126 str.

Florian Stadtler; Ole Birk Laursen

Opis

This book addresses how new technologies, social networks, and global satellite news channels have impacted discussions of identity, place and nation, and how they are shifting the parameters of postcolonial thought. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

Spis treści

Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization  1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process  2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter  3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations  4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture  5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues  6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana  7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature  8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry

O autorze

Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published on South Asian cinema, fiction and history, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.

Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain, focusing especially on anarchism, revolutions and riots.