A Solution to the Problems of the Racial Binary
This project examines how and what it means to take responsibility for various “isms”, analyzes the significance of the responsibilities, and focuses on critically understand belonging without the concomitant need to blame based on differential group membership. Principle Investigator: Wilkes, Rima Department of Sociology, UBC
The New Media Aesthetics of Migration
By analyzing the function of mobile devices and social media in the lives of migrants and connecting it to the role of smartphone technologies and new media in representations (especially self-representations) of migrant experience, this project seeks to understand the significance of mobilizing the digital tools and technologies of migration in its narrativization. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth […]
Migration As Core Narrative Of Plural Societies Towards: An Aesthetics Of Postmigrant Literature (SSHRC Insight Development Grant)
This collaborative research project, together with collaborator Moritz Schramm from South Denmark University, focuses on refugees and immigrants being explicitly seen as agents who enhance societies. We will therefore investigate refugees’ and immigrants’ narratives as playing a crucial part in questioning, changing and creating collective core narratives of belonging in plural societies where an increased diversity demands […]