Western Journal of Communication
Volume 72, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-348

Trialectics of migrant and global representation: Real, imaginary, and online spaces of empowerment in cybermohalla (Article)

Agarwal V.* , Buzzanell P.M.
  • a Purdue University, Department of Communication, Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 100 North University Street, West Lafàyette, IN 47907, United States
  • b [Affiliation not available]

Abstract

This textual exploration of Cyber mohalla, an online journal authored by inhabitants of a temporary neighborhood in Delhi, India, offers a postmodernist critical spatial feminist critique of urban displacement and marginalization. It draws from feminist architectural critiques and cultural analyses of globalization to explore the writers' subjectivity within their spatiotemporal practices. Our examination of reterritorialization discourses reveals five themes addressing notions of structure, impermanence, social relations, urban disorder, and nature. We argue that the act of subjectivizing spaces of marginalization is not only a project of destabilizing resistance but one that examines essentialist notions of difference constraining agency and choice.

Author Keywords

Agency Feminist Resistance Urban globalization Spatial empowerment

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-57049134626&doi=10.1080%2f10570310802445975&partnerID=40&md5=8231812bcd4cccee712d313b7bdb82ca
DOI: 10.1080/10570310802445975
ISSN: 10570314
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English