By Karim H. Karim
The Media of Diaspora examines how diasporic groups have used new communications media to take care of and improve group ties on a neighborhood and transnational point. This number of essays from quite a lot of varied diasporic contexts is a special contribution to the sphere.
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It is the positioning of communities in postcolonial space that underpins the cultural lives of different Indian diasporas and sets the course for possible futures. In an era of the global spread of corporate capital and great demographic shifts, one of the key projects of political modernity is faced with serious crisis: instead of the ‘nationalisation of the ethnic’ that Western nation states banked their hopes on, we now face the opposite scenario, ‘the ethnicisation of the nation’ (see Zizek 1997).
As opposed to the broadcast model of communication which, apart from offering little access to minority groups, is linear, hierarchical and capital-intensive, online media allow easier access and are non-linear, largely non-hierarchical and relatively cheaper. The ability to exchange messages with individuals on the other side of the planet and to have access to community information almost instantaneously changes the dynamics of diaspora, allowing for qualitatively and quantitatively enhanced linkages.
Nation, nostalgia and Bollywood 35 Notes 1 John Davies describes Fiji’s crisis of 2000 as a tragedy of ‘separate solitudes’. Nothing could be more apt. He holds the Fiji Indians squarely responsible for this absence of cultural dialogue: their condescending attitude towards Fijians, their consumerist ways, economic domination and media power. The culture of indigenous people needs to be safeguarded from the globally massive Indian culture, he warns. Towards this he advocates a series of positive discriminations, including the abolition of Hindi from the list of Fiji’s official languages (Davies, 2000).