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Re-Constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas
Author(s): Kamille Gentles-Peart (Author, Editor), Maurice L. Hall (Author, Editor)
- Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Publication Date: 24 Jan. 2012
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 195 pages
- ISBN-10: 144383453X
- ISBN-13: 9781443834537
Book Description
Cultural traditions transmitted within the primary and secondary migratory communities of the Caribbean are continually subject to loss, gain and reinterpretation. Communication practices play a role in these processes as they help to sustain and challenge the diasporic subjectivities of the Caribbean. Re-Constructing Place and Space: Media, Culture, Discourse and the Constitution of Caribbean Diasporas seeks to explore the influence of embodied, discursive and mediated communicative forms on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities. The volume emerged from the 2009 New Media and the Global Diaspora Symposium: Exploring Media in Caribbean Diasporas held at Roger Williams University in the United States. The event sought to encourage interdisciplinary academic discourse on Caribbean migratory populations, foregrounding the role of communicative practices in sustaining their traditions. In keeping with the spirit of the symposium, this volume applies a transdisciplinary lens to understanding the diversity and complexity of Caribbean peoples’ production of and engagement with communication practices. The objectives for the book are two-fold. The general objective is to contribute to discourse on diasporic identity and performativity. The more specific aim of the book is to present a more complex picture of peoples from the Caribbean region and their diasporic communities. ―From the Introduction
Editorial Reviews
Review
“This book [has] made meaningful contributions to communication scholarship regarding African Americans and/or the African Diaspora in insightful ways. This was a thoughtfully put-together anthology. The editors took a dense theoretical approach to the material.”African American Communication and Culture Division, National Communication AssociationAwarded the 2012 Outstanding Book Award by the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association (USA).
About the Author
Kamille Gentles-Peart, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Communication at Roger Williams University, Rhode Island, USA, where she teaches courses in international communication, communication theory and transnational audience theory. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her current research interests include the relationship between diasporic identity construction and media engagement among women of West Indian descent living in the US. Maurice L. Hall, PhD, is Chair and Associate Professor in the Communication Department at Villanova University, Pennsylvania, USA, where he teaches courses on communication in organizations, research methods, and organizational research and consulting. Dr. Hall has also worked as a consultant with a variety of organizations over the past ten years. He specializes in facilitating strategic planning sessions for non-profit organizations, and working with organizations on issues ranging from diversity training and strategic diversity management to conflict management, team building, and organizational communication management.
