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Extraterritoriality, Diaspora, and the Space of Cyberspace

  • Victoria Bernal (author)
Chapter of: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds(pp. 157–170)

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TitleExtraterritoriality, Diaspora, and the Space of Cyberspace
ContributorVictoria Bernal (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0131.1.11
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/extraterritorialities-in-occupied-worlds/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightBernal, Victoria
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-16
Long abstractThe relationship of the Internet to territory is complex, contradictory, and chang-ing. Exploring the diverse and shifting ways that Eritreans in diaspora have used websites to partici-pate in national politics from outside the country sheds light on the dynamics of digital extraterritoriality and its significance for politics. At first cyberspace may be appear to be simply an extra-territorial space, where websites are constructed as spaces with no territorial location. A contributor to a recent volume on digital anthropology notes that, “few aspects of digital media, cyber-space or the network society are as commonly perceived as fundamental as its disembodying aspects, its placelessness and subordination of physical proximity to network connectivity.”1 At the same time it can be said that, “[a] cardinal rule of the geography is that social life takes place in ‘constructed’ spaces.”2 If we understand cyberspace as a constructed space, its significant feature is not its extraterritoriality but rather that the space of cyberspace is ambiguous and elastic, allowing it to support diverse constructions, alterna-tive imaginaries, and multiple forms of territoriality and extraterritoriality.
Page rangepp. 157–170
Print length14 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Victoria Bernal

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