Research programme
Identification and Belonging in a Media Age
The proliferation of new media and communication technologies has led to important changes in Africa.
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- Rijk van Dijk
Understanding how people in Africa identify themselves and others and changing modes of belonging and exclusion have long been central to research at the ASCL. This research programme extends that field of study to the current era of global restructuring and the media revolution. The ASCL is particularly interested in key moments when identification and belonging are expressed in social, cultural and political forms. These include rituals of the life course (e.g. marriages and funerals), cultural creativity in music, the visual arts, material culture and language, and diverse forms of political action and expression and how they change over time, including their mediatization.
Read more about Identification and Belonging in a Media Age at the ASCL website.