JOUB01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Transnationalism, Imagined Communities, Family Values
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Diaspora: ethnic communities that are separated from their country of origin . Deterritorilization: a separation of people from their traditional [historic] territories . Cosmopolitanism: subjectivities situated beyond the nation, identified with the global . Transnationalism: the continuous communication and exchange of ideas/relationship that occur across. Cultural cosmopolitanism: cultural awareness- not enough to just know your own, but also other people"s cultures, reflexivity towards cultural assumptions/myths- us elections always want these challenged. Optimistic globalization: globalization is the progression of forces to have accelerated the interdependence of people to point at which we can speak of a true world community . Pessimistic globalization: the global village overestimated the communitarian implications of the new media order . New localities of indigenous & diaspora media: linked people who are geographically dispersed to both preserve and reinstate cultural traditions and language practices that had been dying out , new ways of people interacting.
