Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference 14-17th December 2016 Program Index

and Greece may offer us interesting insights, considering the complex shared history of these countries, as
well as the long-lasting solidarity between activist groups across borders. Several visual images during 2008
Greek protests after the murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos were shared in Turkish-speaking
media, which triggered a wider interest in the overall atmosphere of dissent in Greece. Growing with the
following Greek movements of Syntagma and Antausterity, such interest evolved into an interaction with the
eruption of Gezi Movement in 2013. This paper aims to present the preliminary findings of an ongoing
research that asks the following questions: How do digital media shape our everyday experiences of protest
and disposition us to have certain feelings of solidarity and togetherness? How do visual images produce a
community/solidarity feeling within the context of social movements? To what extent does circulation of
visual images across national borders change the solidarity feeling among activists?
Rosannguaq Rossen
Globalisation through fashion – The Greenlandic diasporas from Europe
Not all of the Greenlandic designers live in Greenland, but their products represent the idea of an Arctic
culture, which are the representations of the Greenlandic diaspora. Greenlandic understood as the designers
who express intimate attachment to Greenland one way or the other. They find inspiration from Greenlandic
storytelling tradition and ethno-symbols. They either seem to transfer or to translate them and combine
these with global references to express both their Greenlandicness and their Globalness. This presentation is
analyzing the migration and the globalization aspect of the Greenlandic designers who live outside their
“homeland”. What is the underlying discourse behind their designs? How does migration change existing
symbols of representation? Migration to Europe involves new cultural ideas incorporated to the Greenlandic
art and fashion. Furthermore, the question of what happens to you, the non-European, when you move to
the West, will be touched upon. Globalization reveals a conflict between “our sense of belonging” and
factual citizenship.
Glen Fuller* & Scheherazade Bloul*
Mediators
Re-Fashioning Islam in Australia: “Modest Fashion” and Micro-Celebrity
“Modest fashion” has emerged in Australia, Europe and elsewhere as a key site for Muslim women to
articulate and negotiate their own identities. This paper presents some preliminary findings from a project
organised around interviewing “modest fashion” bloggers in Australia. We are aiming to address how
modest fashion bloggers negotiate and critically reflect on their gendered and religious identities through
social media practice. The research also included an analysis of an archive assembled from media texts and
commentary about “modest fashion”. “Modest fashion” bloggers serve as cultural intermediaries between
different social milieus. They articulate new zones of relationality for articulating religious and cultural
identities. Of concern to us in particular is the degree to which Australian “modest fashion” bloggers
participate in and contribute to an emerging global modest fashion-based movement aimed at building
identity and community, challenging existing discursive representations, and developing counter-discourses,
by using new media technologies.
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