Epistemic Decolonization of Migration: Digital Witnessing of Crisis and Borders in For Sama
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| Publication date | 01-2023 |
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| Book title | Postcolonial Publics |
| Book subtitle | Art and Citizen Media in Europe |
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| Series | Studi e ricerche |
| Pages (from-to) | 95-112 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Publisher | Venezia: Edizioni Ca' Foscari |
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| 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’.
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| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-677-0/006 |
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