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David MORLEY Vortrag und Launchparty vom e-Jurnal EASTBOUND and der CEU (Central European University, Nádor u. 9, 1051 Budapest), 11. April 17h.
Titel des Vortrages: Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity.
David Morley ist Professor für Kommunikation and der Goldsmiths College in London und gleichzeitig Mitglied des advisory boards der neu startenden EASTBOUND (peer-reviewed). Die elektronische Zeitschrift behandelt Themen über Media, Kultur und Gesellschaft in Mittel- und Osteuropa.

Abstract:
This lecture will focus on the transformations in ideas of home, place, belonging and identity in the context of the transnational patterns of communication and mobility which increasingly characterise our contemporary, destabilised (or, according to some, deterritorialised) world. The lecture will examine the cultural significance of the transgression of borders (of various sorts) which arises from these forces, and investigates how these transgressions are regulated in different circumstances. These issues are explored at both micro and macro levels, in relation to the household, the nation and the local or transnational community as `spaces of belonging`. The approach advocated argues for a `materialist` version of cultural studies which is sensitive to both the symbolic and the material geographies within which people`s identities are formed.