Physical immobility and virtual mobility: Mediating everyday life from a Karen refugee camp in Thailand

IF 1.5 2区社会学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

International Journal of Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2023-03-03 DOI:10.1177/13678779231155648

C. Hill

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This article reflects on how offline and online everyday life coexists for encamped, young Karen living in protracted displacement. As part of the special issue ‘Cultures of (im)mobile entanglements’, edited by Earvin Cabalquinto and Koen Leurs, I centre the voices of young Karen living in Mae La refugee camp in Thailand and unpack how personal and social relationships are built and maintained physically in the camp, as well as in digitally mediated spaces. I focus on the tensions of (im)mobility and how life and presence were mediated before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. I emphasise the influence of culture, society, and infrastructure on my participants’ living trajectories and find how social media expands their lived reality far beyond the confinement of the camp.

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身体的不动与虚拟的不动:从泰国克伦族难民营中调解日常生活

这篇文章反映了在长期流离失所的难民营中，年轻的卡伦人如何在线下和线上的日常生活中共存。作为由Earvin Cabalquinto和Koen Leurs编辑的特刊“(im)移动纠缠的文化”的一部分，我以生活在泰国Mae La难民营的年轻凯伦的声音为中心，揭示了个人和社会关系是如何在营地以及数字媒介空间中建立和维持的。我的重点是流动性的紧张局势，以及在2019冠状病毒病大流行之前和期间，生活和存在是如何调解的。我强调文化、社会和基础设施对参与者生活轨迹的影响，并发现社交媒体如何扩展他们的生活现实，远远超出了营地的限制。

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International Journal of Cultural Studies Multiple-

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4.20

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9.50%

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期刊介绍： International Journal of Cultural Studies is committed to rethinking cultural practices, processes, texts and infrastructures beyond traditional national frameworks and regional biases. The journal publishes theoretical, empirical and historical analyses that interrogate what culture means, and what culture does, across global and local scales of power and action, diverse technologies and forms of mediation, and multiple dimensions of performance, experience and identity. Dedicated to theoretical and methodological innovation in cultural research, the journal is multidisciplinary in outlook, publishing relevant contributions that integrate approaches from the social sciences, humanities, information sciences and more. International Journal of Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal gives preference to papers that extend existing theory or generate new theory through interpretive engagement with empirical cases. Papers based on single country case-studies should clearly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses for an international readership. The journal does not publish close readings of single texts; but it does consider critical, contextualised readings that similarly indicate and develop the broader relevance of their analyses to the field. International Journal of Cultural Studies regularly publishes special issues on urgent questions in the field as well as on specific regions, industries and practices.