Technologies of transculturation

Technologies of transculturation

Technologies of transculturation include the many ways in which cultures affected by globalization assert, contest and subvert identity processes, as well as the toll that is often exacted by this struggle against global economic and political forces.

In this area, TfC researchers in particular

• trace flows of people, objects and ideas within the colonial structures created by European powers to link different colonies in the Indian Ocean and South Asia region, which created new relationships between colonizers, settlers and indigenous people (Ghosh, Ho, Jones)
• explore Latin American and Latino mediated imaginaries (Allatson, Browitt)

Other researchers explore the ways in which art, popular media and digital cultures are used to articulate forms of belonging and resistance and to create new spaces and places, new synergies and new possibilities for cultural. political and social diversity (Allatson, Browitt, Cranny-Francis, Mikula, Vanni)

TfC projects in this area include:

• Devleena Ghosh, The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN)
• Devleena Ghosh, Meredith Jones, Medical Tourism in India and Thailand

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