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New Book: The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture

A Book co-edited by Roza Tsagarousianou and Jessica Retis, published by Wiley

A new book co-edited by Jessica Retis and Roza Tsagarousianou offers a multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field diasporas, media, and culture.

Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and international relations. The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture explores new dimensions of human mobility and connectivity—presenting state-of-the-art research and key debates on the intersection of media, cultural, and diasporic studies

This innovative and timely book helps readers to understand diasporic cultures and their impact on the globalized world.

The Handbook presents contributions from internationally-recognized scholars and researchers to strengthen understanding of diasporas and diasporic cultures, diasporic media and cultural resources, and the various forms of diasporic organization, expression, production, distribution, and consumption. Divided into seven sections, this wide-ranging volume covers topics such as methodological challenges and innovations in diasporic research, the construction of diasporic identity, the politics of diasporic integration, the intersection of gender and generation with the diasporic condition, new technologies in media, and many others. A much-needed resource for anyone with interest diasporic studies, this book:

  • Presents new and original theory, research, and essays
  • Employs unique methodological and conceptual debates
  • Offers contributions from a multidisciplinary team of scholars and researchers
  • Explores new and emerging trends in the study of diasporas and media
  • Applies a wide-ranging, international perspective to the subject

Due to its international perspective, interdisciplinary approach, and wide range of authors from around the world, The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, lecturers, and researchers in areas that focus on the relationship of media and society, ethnic identity, race, class and gender, globalization and immigration, and other relevant fields.

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Roza Tsagarousianou

About

Roza leads the following modules: Multiculturalism and the Media; Media, Time, Space; Approaches to Social and Cultural Diversity; Understanding and Managing Diversity in the Media; as well as the Doctoral Research Module for the CAMRI doctoral programme. She is currently supervising seven doctoral students and has eleven successful PhD completions.

Her current research interests include the study of diasporic media and cultural politics; diasporic youth and digital media; multiculturalism (theory and policy); European Muslim cultures and media; democracy and everyday life.

Details

Date
24 May 2019
Published By
Wiley
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