Narrative Constructions of Online Imagined Afro-diasporic Communities in Spain and Portugal

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ID16964407
AutoresJulia Borst (0000-0002-4068-0851, University of Bremen, autor correspondente), Danae Gallo González (0000-0001-5679-2711, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Ano2019
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas286-307
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoOpen Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2451-3474 • E-ISSN: 2451-3474
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/culture-2019-0026
OpenAlexW2946483851
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas33

This article focuses on representative digital platforms created and coordinated by African and Afro-descendant people from Spain and Portugal. It argues that, by sharing and articulating mutual narratives online, these platforms act as spaces where Afro-diasporic communities are being imagined. To that effect, this paper not only builds on theoretical reflections on how Blackness and Afrodescendance are conceptualised on the internet. Adopting a cultural studies’ approach that offers an interpretation of selected posts, it deduces the main narratives displayed and the diverse identificational spaces intertwined in those narratives. In doing so, the paper shows that these platforms challenge biased perspectives on Afro-diasporic communities and, within the digital space, conceptualise alternative, decentred—national and transnational—communities of Afro-diasporic people that are based on shared experiences of displacement, exclusion, resistance and self-empowerment

Aesthetics · Art · Descendant · Empowerment · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Computer Science · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy