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On Being Italian, Canadian and Global

Explore the rich tapestry of Italian migrant experiences in Western Australia, shedding light on historical migration impacts and multifaceted community engagement. Uncover narratives through a cultural history and archival journey.

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On Being Italian, Canadian and Global

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  1. On Being Italian, Canadian and Global Knowledge, power and the implications of digitization for ethnographic practice

  2. Ethnographic practice • ‘Knowledge, however interesting, can never be disinterested’ (Acciaioli, 1981, p. 23). • Participant observation is the central and innovative method of anthropology. It provides the research with grounded close observation of individual and collective social action within a cultural context.

  3. Multicultural Canada • Digital democratisation • Globalisation • Circulation (multiculturalisms) and local productions - nationalisms • Knowledge/power - abundant, tacit, elided, and secret • Objects of Knowledge? Community, nation, data

  4. Mark Poster - What’s the Matter With the Internet (2001) • Internet is ‘underdetermined’ because it doesn’t direct users into clear paths and encourages ‘social construction and cultural creation… it remains an invitation to a new imaginary.’ • The internet is transgressive because it enables instantaneous many to many communications, dislocates communication from the space of the nation

  5. The Global Gathering Place and Inspector Relic • The Multicultural History Society of Ontario • Schools, culture and history • Globalisation - locally produced • The Lucky Immigrant

  6. Networks and Linkages

  7. Boundaries and Borders Sophia Loren Narratives of seeing Workers of the World

  8. Civic incorporation • Citizenship • Agency andbureaucracy/government policy • Knowledge silences

  9. Italian Lives in Western Australia A cultural history and archives of migrants and migration ARC Linkage Project Project Website www.italianlives.arts.uwa.edu.au Italo-Australian Welfare and Cultural Centre JS Battye Library Western Australian Museum Office of Multicultural Interests Cassamarca Foundation

  10. Project Aims: • To produce a comprehensive historical study of Italian migrants and migration in Western Australia. • the need for migration and impact of government attempts to control migration flows; • the merits of multiculturalism as a government policy to ‘manage’ difference; • the challenge to traditional concepts of nationhood posed by transnational migration networks • the ageing migrant community and its needs.

  11. Community Engagement • Project Launch (November 2004) • Media Campaign (Italian & English)Ongoing

  12. Naples, Italy and underground economies

  13. Creative ‘immigrant’ economies

  14. Technologies of migration

  15. Surveillance and Digital Controls

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