1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910369917003321

Titolo

Baltic-Black Sea Regionalisms : Patchworks and Networks at Europe's Eastern Margins / / edited by Olga Bogdanova, Andrey Makarychev

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020

ISBN

3-030-24878-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VI, 243 p.)

Disciplina

320.54

Soggetti

Regionalism

Area studies

International relations

Ethnicity

Emigration and immigration

Area Studies

Foreign Policy

Ethnicity Studies

Diaspora

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Theories, Vocabularies, Concepts -- Trans-National Worlds and Spaces -- Policy Practices of Cross- / Trans-Border Region-(Un)Making -- Ukraine in the Limelight.

Sommario/riassunto

This edited volume focuses on various forms of regionalism and neighborhoods in the Baltic-Black Sea area. In the light of current reshaping of borderlands and new geopolitical and military confrontations in Europe’s eastern margins, such as the annexation of Crimea and the war in Donbas, this book analyzes different types and modalities of regional integration and region-making from a comparative perspective. It conceptualizes cooperative and conflictual encounters as a series of networks and patchworks that differently link and relate major actors to each other and thus shape these interconnections as domains of inclusion and exclusion, bordering and debordering, securitization and desecuritization. This peculiar



combination of geopolitics, ethnopolitics and biopolitics makes the Baltic-Black Sea trans-national region a source of inspiring policy practices, and, in the light of new security risks, a matter of increased concern all over Europe. The contributors from various disciplines cover topics such as cultural and civilizational spaces of belonging and identity politics, the rise of right-wing populism, region building under the condition of multiple security pressures, and the influence and regional strategies of different external powers, including the EU, Russia, and Turkey, on cross- and trans-regional relations in the area.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552762903321

Autore

BROCK ANDR

Titolo

Distributed Blackness : African American cybercultures

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : NEW YORK University Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781479811908

1479811904

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 271 pages ) : illustrations

Collana

Critical Cultural Communication

Disciplina

302.23089/96073

Soggetti

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES - Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- DISTRIBUTED BLACKNESS -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction

1. Distributing Blackness: Ayo Technology! Texts, Identities, and Blackness -- 2. Information Inspirations: The Web Browser as Racial Technology -- 3. “The Black Purposes of Space Travel”: Black Twitter as Black Technoculture -- 4. Black Online Discourse, Part 1: Ratchetry and Racism -- 5. Black Online Discourse, Part 2: Respectability -- 6. Making a Way out of No Way: Black Cyberculture and the Black Technocultural Matrix

Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, 'Distributed Blackness' places blackness at the very center of internet culture. Andre Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. 'Distributed Blackness' analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how "blackness" gets worked out in various technological domains. 0As Brock demonstrates, there's nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.