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Victoria Bernal
Researcher at University of California, Irvine
Publications - 33
Citations - 1111
Victoria Bernal is an academic researcher from University of California, Irvine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Diaspora & Politics. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 31 publications receiving 1009 citations. Previous affiliations of Victoria Bernal include Hamilton College & University of California.
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Diaspora, cyberspace and political imagination: the Eritrean diaspora online
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the Eritrean diaspora and its use of cyberspace to theorize the ways transnationalism and new media are associated with the rise of new forms of community, public spheres and sites of cultural production.
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Eritrea Goes Global: Reflections on Nationalism in a Transnational Era
TL;DR: The new nation of Eritrea serves as an example suggesting that transnationalism does not only operate in opposition to nationalism but can also work to reinforce it as discussed by the authors, and official constructions of Eritrean citizenship and the national community take this into account in surprising ways.
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Eritrea on-line: Diaspora, cyberspace, and the public sphere
TL;DR: For Eritreans in diaspora, identities are deterritorialized, one's most pressing communication may be with far-flung strangers in cyberspace, and one's political engagement is centered on a distant homeland as discussed by the authors.
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Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how Eritreans in diaspora have used the Internet to shape the course of Eritrean history and argue that Benedict Anderson's famous concept of nations as "imagined communities" must now be rethought because diasporas and information technologies have transformed the ways nations are sustained and challenged.
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Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism
Victoria Bernal,Inderpal Grewal +1 more
TL;DR: Bernal and Grewal as mentioned in this paper discussed the intersection of women's empowerment and the NGO form and found that women's participation and the explosion of the NGO Boom in North India is correlated with women empowerment.