Article ID: CBB165260516

Mobile Lives, Immobile Representations (June 2018)

unapi

The article looks at how cultural constructs of “urban” and “rural” are used in policy measures. The question is opened by analyzing twenty-five short films submitted for the competition Once upon a Time in Our Village organized by the Estonian Ministry of Agriculture and Just Film (a nonprofit organization). The competition calls for young people to “depict the future and possibilities of rural life.” The aim was to prevent out-migration of young people from the rural areas. As the data show, the films echo cultural constructions that depict the rural as opposed to the urban: traditional, quiet, and a haven of the national past. The future and technological possibilities are something that are constructed as an urban phenomenon, and thus, not present in the films.

...More
Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB165260516/

Similar Citations

Book Cajetan Nwabueze Iheka; Taylor, Jack; (2018)
African migration narratives : politics, race, and space (/isis/citation/CBB920540324/)

Article Tina Montenegro; (December 2021)
Atlantics: The Ocean as Another Place (film review) (/isis/citation/CBB713682710/)

Book Archambault, Julie Soleil; (2017)
Mobile secrets: youth, intimacy, and the politics of pretense in Mozambique (/isis/citation/CBB236409518/)

Article Tauri Tuvikene; (2022)
Absence, Presence, and Mobility: A Landscape Approach to an Unfinished Tram Project (/isis/citation/CBB408387470/)

Article Corinna Land; (June 2021)
Desperate Aspirations among Paraguayan Youths: The Renegotiation of Migration and Rural Futures (/isis/citation/CBB102506511/)

Article Ellen Bal; Hosna J. Shewly; Runa Laila; (June 2021)
Aspiration and Desperation Traps in Trajectories of Physical and Social Mobility-Immobility: Young Female Migrants in the City (/isis/citation/CBB253308474/)

Article Supurna Banerjee; Eva Gerharz; (June 2021)
Introduction: Interrogating Aspirations through Migratory Mobilities (/isis/citation/CBB475567161/)

Article Susan E. Bell; Kathy Davis; (June 2017)
Museum Review: Historical Fragments’ Mobile Echo Encountering the Current Refugee Crisis with Ai Weiwei (/isis/citation/CBB181062759/)

Article Mayurakshi Chaudhuri; Viola Thimm; (December 2018)
Introduction: Postcolonial Intersections. Asia on the Move (/isis/citation/CBB188908970/)

Article Victor Seow; (December 2018)
The Metabolism of Modern Migration (/isis/citation/CBB915286515/)

Book Gordon Mathews; Yang, Yang; Linessa Dan Lin; (2017)
The World in Guangzhou: Africans and other foreigners in south China's global marketplace (/isis/citation/CBB122420294/)

Article Jolien Tegenbos; Karen Büscher; (June 2017)
Moving Onward? Secondary Movers on the Fringes of Refugee Mobility in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya (/isis/citation/CBB204824211/)

Article Godfrey Baldacchino; (2021)
Forced Immobility: Undocumented Migrants, Boats, Brussels, and Islands (/isis/citation/CBB464738879/)

Article Noel B. Salazar; (December 2021)
Immobility: The Relational and Experiential Qualities of an Ambiguous Concept (/isis/citation/CBB764076041/)

Book Nathan Riley Carpenter; Lawrance, Benjamin Nicholas; (2018)
Africans in Exile: Mobility, law, and identity (/isis/citation/CBB248109382/)

Article Clio Andris; Juan Ruescas; (March 2017)
Film Review: Zootopia: Everything in Motion (/isis/citation/CBB572276981/)

Article Brook Manville; Josiah Ober; (March 2019)
In Search of Democracy 4.0: Is Democracy as We Know It Destined to Die? (/isis/citation/CBB867447434/)

Book Erica Durante; (2020)
Air travel fiction and film : cloud people (/isis/citation/CBB226035177/)

Authors & Contributors
Supurna Banerjee
Archambault, Julie Soleil
Hosna J. Shewly
Gordon Mathews
Syntia Hasenöhrl
Godfrey Baldacchino
Concepts
Mobility
Migration
Motion pictures; cinema; movies
Postcolonialism
Return migration
African diaspora
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
Places
Africa
Europe
China
Mediterranean Sea
Guangzhou (China)
Mozambique
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment