Epistemic Decolonization of Migration: Digital Witnessing of Crisis and Borders

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_15873
dc.contributor.author	Denić Nadica
dc.title	Epistemic Decolonization of Migration: Digital Witnessing of Crisis and Borders in For Sama
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This chapter analyses how digital witnessing of migration in documentary auto-ethnography contributes towards epistemic decolonization. I focus on For Sama (Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019) as a case study, a letter-film that memorializes key events in al-Kateab’s everyday life during the Syrian Civil War that shaped her decision to migrate to Europe. By considering the relation between documentary, citizen media, and decoloniality, I argue that digital witnessing in For Sama provides affective access to migration motivations that challenges their reductionist categorization and pluralizes audience understanding of ‘crisis’ and ‘borders’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Studi e ricerche
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-01-26
dc.dateAccepted	2022-10-21
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-13
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-678-7/epistemic-decolonization-of-migration-digital-witn/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/006
dc.identifier.issn	2610-993X
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9123
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-678-7
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-677-0
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Borderscape
dc.subject	Crisis ordinariness
dc.subject	Decoloniality of knowledge
dc.subject	Documentary auto-ethnography
dc.subject	Migrant Voices

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Epistemic Decolonization of Migration: Digital Witnessing of Crisis and Borders in For Sama

Nadica Denić Universiteit van Amsterdam, Nederland

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This chapter analyses how digital witnessing of migration in documentary auto-ethnography contributes towards epistemic decolonization. I focus on For Sama (Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, 2019) as a case study, a letter-film that memorializes key events in al-Kateab’s everyday life during the Syrian Civil War that shaped her decision to migrate to Europe. By considering the relation between documentary, citizen media, and decoloniality, I argue that digital witnessing in For Sama provides affective access to migration motivations that challenges their reductionist categorization and pluralizes audience understanding of ‘crisis’ and ‘borders’.

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Jan. 26, 2023

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Oct. 21, 2022

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July 13, 2022

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978-88-6969-678-7

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978-88-6969-677-0

Keywords: Decoloniality of knowledge • Borderscape • Crisis ordinariness • Documentary auto-ethnography • Migrant Voices

permalink: http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/006

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