Media, diaspora and the Somali conflict

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This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Media, Diaspora and Conflict demonstrates a previously overlooked complexity in diasporic media by using the Somali conflict as a case study to indicate how the media explores conflict in respective homelands, in addition to revealing its participatory role in transnationalising conflicts. By illustrating the familiar narratives associated with diasporic media and utilising a combination of Somali websites and television, focus groups with diaspora community members and interviews with journalists and producers, the potentials and restrictions of diasporic media and how it relates to homelands in conflict are explored. . Read more... Abstract: This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities. Read more... Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction (Idil Osman)....Pages 1-6 Contextualising the Somali Conflict (Idil Osman)....Pages 7-33 The Somali Migration: Diaspora Coming into Being (Idil Osman)....Pages 35-51 Conceptualising Conflict Re-creation (Idil Osman)....Pages 53-80 Transnationalising Conflict: Somali Diasporic Media in Action (Idil Osman)....Pages 81-105 Mediatising Conflict: Reason and Reckoning (Idil Osman)....Pages 107-117 Consuming Conflict: Somali Diaspora Audience (Idil Osman)....Pages 119-135 Conclusion: Looking Forward, Looking Back (Idil Osman)....Pages 137-146 Back Matter ....Pages 147-156