Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (18 Seiten)
Publ. der Quelle:
London : Routledge, 2014
Angaben zur Quelle:
, Seiten 63-80
DDC:
301
Keywords:
East Indian diaspora
;
East Indians
;
Internet
;
Internet and immigrants
;
Migration
;
Transnationalism
;
Ethnology
;
Internet Ethnography
;
Soziologie und Anthropologie
;
Soziale Interaktion
;
Personengruppen
;
Gemeinschaften
;
Internationale Migration und Kolonisation
Abstract:
The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the formulation of research questions as well as the processes and consequences of research. This focus has been inspired by discussions at the international seminar ‘Indian transnationalism online: ethnographic explorations’ in Hyderabad in 2012. Accordingly I am taking the title of this international seminar and explore it in three stages. Firstly, I question the concept of ‘Indian transnationalism’, in particular the meaning of ‘Indian’ outside of India. Secondly, I look at barriers to ‘transnationalism online’. Thirdly, I discuss ‘ethnographic explorations’ of virtual spaces. At each of these stages I add to my theoretical deliberations material from my research about the Indernet. This is a virtual space founded by people identifying themselves as (second generation) Indians in Germany, which started in summer 2000 as a meeting place for others who were similar to them in terms of this linkage of India and Germany. Following the discussion of ‘Indian transnationalism’ I show, firstly, how the users and editors of the Indernet relate to the concepts of Indian and German. Secondly, in exemplifying ‘transnationalism online’ I discuss how far the Indernet can be considered as transnational. Thirdly, I describe my ethnographic explorations of the Indernet. After thus having discussed the three parts of the seminar title, I conclude by looking at the figure of the ethnic entrepreneur (Brubaker 2004), in particular in the form of the webmaster and the researcher, whose projects are coded in ethnic terms.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
DOI:
10.4324/9781315588315
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/32161-2
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