Boekpublicaties 2007 << terug

Baronian, Marie Aude, S. Besser, Y. Jansen (eds.), 2007.
- Diaspora and Memory, Figures of Displacement in Contempo-rary Literature, Arts and Politics. A, dam /New York: Rodolphi. lees
Dasgupta, Sudeep
- Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique. A'dam/ New York, Rodolphi, 2007. lees
Mackenzie Owen, John
- The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization. Springer Netherlands, 2007. lees


Marie-Aude Baronian - Diaspora and Memory. Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics .
Experiences of migration and dwelling-in-displacement impinge upon the lives of an ever increasing number of people worldwide, with business class comfort but more often with unrelenting violence. Since the early 1990s, the political and cultural realities of global migration have led to a growing interest in the different forms of diasporic existence and identities.
The articles in this book do not focus on the 'external' boundaries of diaspora – what is diasporic and what is not? – but on one of its most important 'internal' boundaries, which is indicated by the second term in the title of this book: memory.It is not by chance that the 'right' to remember, the 'responsibility' to recall, are central issues of the debates in diasporic communities and their relation to their cultural and political surroundings. The relation of diaspora and memory contains important critical and maybe even subversive potentials. Memory can transcend the territorial logic of dispersal and return, and emerge as a competing source of diasporic identity.

Sudeep Dasgupta (ed.) - Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique.
In the wake of proliferating discourses around globalization and culture, some central questions around cultural politics have acquired a commonsensical and hegemonic character in contemporary intellectual discourse. The politics of difference, the possibilities of hybridity and the potential of multiple liminalities frame much discussion around the transnational dimensions of culture and post-identity politics. In this volume, the economic, political and social consequences of the focus on “culture” in contemporary theories of globalization are analyzed around the disparate fields of architecture and tourism, museum discourse and satellite television, diasporic cinema and sub-national theatre. The discourses of hybridity, diaspora, cultural difference and minoritization are critically interrogated and engaged with through close analyses of cultural objects and practices.

John MacKenzie Owen - The Scientific Article in the Age of Digitization.
This book outlines the consequences of digitization for peer-reviewed research articles published in electronic journals. It has often been argued that digitization will revolutionize scientific communication. However, this study shows that this is not the case as far as scientific journals are concerned. Authors make little or no use of the possibilities offered by the digital medium, new procedures for electronic peer review have not replaced traditional peer review, and users do not seem to accept new forms of interaction offered by some electronic journals. The main innovations are to be found at the level of the infrastructures developed by publishers. Scientists themselves appear to be reluctant to change their established patterns of behaviour in formal scientific communication.