1st Edition
Networking the Globe New Technologies and the Postcolonial
Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization Florian Stadtler and Ole Birk Laursen with Brian Rock
1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process Hilde C. Stephansen
2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter David Herbert, Tracey Black and Ramy Aly
3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations Paula Blair
4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture Maruta Herding
5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues Sandra Annett
6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana Vivien Silvey
7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature Ahmed Gamal
8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry Anjali Nerlekar
Biography
Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published on South Asian cinema, fiction and history, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.
Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain, focusing especially on anarchism, revolutions and riots.
