[ecrea] cfp - African Digital Diasporas

*Call for Papers*. The peer-reviewed journal */African Diaspora/* 
invites submissions for a special issue on “African Digital Diasporas” 
to be published in 2019. Submission deadline is January 4, 2019.

“*African Digital Diasporas”*

**Digital mediahave come to play an essential role in the ways in which 
African diasporas (re)imagine themselves and transnational migrant 
communities connect across political boundaries and geographic 
distances. The internet has offered new ways of creating or maintaining 
a sense of belonging and connectedness among diasporic groups, new modes 
of political activism and organizing, and means for connecting with 
people and institutions in the homeland. Social media, homeland-focused 
websites, and other platforms are facilitating connections that build on 
existing communities and diasporas with a national, regional, local, 
ethnic or religious focus. Digital media also have opened up new 
linkages between older diasporas, such as those resulting from the 
transatlantic slave trade, and African organizations, and newer African 
diasporas. African Diaspora is inviting empirically based contributions 
which explore the various dimensions of African digital diasporas from 
diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Some possible issues to consider that 
reveal the dynamics of these on-going processes include but are not 
limited to:

What kinds of communities, identities and imaginaries emerge from 
digital diasporic spaces?

Do we need to re-think our conceptualizations of diaspora in the digital 
age?

What contradictions or conflicts arise from diasporas’ engagements with 
digital media?

How are issues of generation and gender reproduced and transformed 
through online activities?

What forms of digital innovation, creative repurposing, and novel 
applications have been undertaken by African diasporas to meet specific 
needs?

How are the activities of African digital diasporas understood and 
experienced in the homeland?

The deadline to submit papers for consideration is January 4, 2019. 
Manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Please 
submit your papers to the special issue editor, Victoria Bernal by 
email: (vbernal /at/ uci.edu) <mailto:(vbernal /at/ uci.edu)>. If you have any 
questions, please do not hesitate to contact her.

/African Diaspora,/aJournal of Transnational Africa in a Global World,is 
an interdisciplinary scholarly journalthat seeks to understand how 
/African/ cultures and societies shape and are shaped by historical and 
current /diasporic/ and transnational movements. Contrary to assuming 
'Africa' as a bounded geographical entity and the African diaspora as a 
single imagined community, the journal charts uncovered territories and 
entangled histories of plural diasporas and transnational movements 
from, to and within Africa. These include, but are not limited to, the 
Transatlantic, the Indian Ocean, the Middle East as well as Europe and 
the former socialist countries of the European continent. By focusing on 
when and how diasporas are produced and lived, diasporic connections are 
claimed, and transnational engagements evolve, the journal fosters a 
view on the ways in which these movements are navigated by people, 
networks, communities and states in historical, political and 
socio-cultural terms. The journal encourages the submission of articles 
that are groundbreaking in their empirically founded 
re-conceptualizations of this intellectual terrain.Articles should be 
based onresearch grounded in qualitative and ethnographic approaches. 
You may find a list of previous issues, including past special issues, 
at http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/18725465


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