Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere Export

@article{citeulike:804238, abstract = {For Eritreans in diaspora, identities are deterritorialized, one's most pressing communication may be with far-flung strangers in cyberspace, and one's political engagement is centered on a distant homeland. Eritrean experiences, thus, seem to bring together various qualities that scholars have been grappling with in trying to chart the implications of the infotech revolution and life on-line, in seeking to understand processes of transnationalism and globalization, and in charting the elusive construction of community in the postmodern age. Through an analysis of the social history of <inter-ref locator="http://www.dehai.org" locator-type="URL">www.dehai.org</inter-ref>, a website developed by Eritreans in diaspora, I explore the ways that new forms of technological and geographical mobility are changing the conditions not just of capitalist production but also of knowledge production and the constitution of publics, public spheres, communities, and nations.}, author = {Bernal, Victoria}, citeulike-article-id = {804238}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.660}, doi = {10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.660}, journal = {American Ethnologist}, keywords = {anthropology, cyberspace, diaspora, ethnography}, number = {4}, pages = {660--675}, posted-at = {2006-08-17 15:28:47}, priority = {2}, title = {Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.660}, volume = {32}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:804238 L3 - citeulike-article-id:804238 N2 - For Eritreans in diaspora, identities are deterritorialized, one's most pressing communication may be with far-flung strangers in cyberspace, and one's political engagement is centered on a distant homeland. Eritrean experiences, thus, seem to bring together various qualities that scholars have been grappling with in trying to chart the implications of the infotech revolution and life on-line, in seeking to understand processes of transnationalism and globalization, and in charting the elusive construction of community in the postmodern age. Through an analysis of the social history of <inter-ref locator="http://www.dehai.org" locator-type="URL">www.dehai.org</inter-ref>, a website developed by Eritreans in diaspora, I explore the ways that new forms of technological and geographical mobility are changing the conditions not just of capitalist production but also of knowledge production and the constitution of publics, public spheres, communities, and nations. IS - 4 JF - American Ethnologist EP - 675 TI - Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere VL - 32 SP - 660 KW - anthropology KW - cyberspace KW - diaspora KW - ethnography AU - Bernal, Victoria PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ae.2005.32.4.660 ER -