Globalisation, Migration and Diaspora

Continuing a proud tradition of research on culture and globalisation at Nottingham Trent University, the ‘Globalisation, Migration and Diaspora’ research group conducts exciting work analysing important aspects of globalisation, both contemporary and more historical. The group probes questions of cultural exchange, translation, communication and identity in contexts that are marked by inequalities of power and access to resources. Some of its work focuses on specific global regions such as the Indian sub-continent, Korea, China, Turkey or Europe, while other strands of it, looking at issues such as diaspora or migration, are less geographically specific in their scope.

Cinema and television, in both their ‘high-brow’ and more popular variants, are areas of strength but the group also works in other important fields including visual culture, public diplomacy and new social media. The latter are examined especially for their capacity to open access to communication to previously excluded or silenced groups and to enable the formation of virtual and diasporic communities.

All of the group’s work is attentive to questions of cultural difference and the need to challenge western centred understandings of history and identity. How people understand questions such as sexual identity varies as we move from culture to culture and region to region. This variation, and the need it generates for cultural translation, is an important dimension of our work.

• ALEXANDER, C., 2016. Taiwan’s public diplomacy. In: G. SCHUBERT, ed., Routledge handbook of contemporary Taiwan. Routledge handbooks . London: Routledge, pp. 544-558. ISBN 9781138781870
• ALEXANDER, C., 2014. China and Taiwan in Central America: engaging foreign publics in diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan series in global public diplomacy . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137480095
• ALEXANDER, C., 2014. China and Taiwan in Central America: engaging foreign publics in diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan series in global public diplomacy . New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137480095
• BAILEY, O.G., 2015. Alternative media, resistance, and social movement in Brazil. In: C. ATTON, ed., The Routledge companion to alternative and community media. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 415-425. ISBN 9780415644044
• BAILEY, O., 2013. Narratives on migration and transnational Media: crises of representation? [forthcoming]. In: M. MARTINEZ, ed., Migration & Media. Spain: CIDACOM, University of Santiago de Compostela.
• BAILEY, O., 2012. Alternative media, resistance, and social movement in Brazil. In: B. YANIKKAYA, ed., Radical media: channels of dissident voices. Istanbul: Yeditepe University
• ÇAKIRLAR, C., 2017. Transnational pride, global closets and regional formations of screen activism: documentary LGBTQ narratives from Turkey. Critical Arts. ISSN 0256-0046
• ÇAKIRLAR, C., 2016. Introduction to queer/ing regions. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 23 (11), pp. 1615-1618. ISSN 0966-369X
• ÇAKIRLAR, C., 2015. Unsettling the patriot: troubled objects of masculinity and nationalism.In: A. CAMPBELL and S. FARRIER, eds., Queer dramaturgies: international perspectives on where performance leads queer. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 81-97. ISBN 9781137411839
• O'SHAUGHNESSY, M., 2017. Cinema, sex tourism and globalisation in American and European cinema. In: E. MAZIERSKA and L. KRISTENSEN, eds., Contemporary cinema and neoliberal ideology. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 217-232. ISBN 9781138235731
• O'SHAUGHNESSY, M., 2011. French cinema and neo-liberal globalization. In: J. KAPUR and K. WAGNER, eds., Neoliberalism and global cinema: capital, culture, and Marxist critique. New York ; London: Routledge.
• O'SHAUGHNESSY, M., 2007. The new face of political cinema: French film since 1995.Berghahn. ISBN 9781845453220