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Principal Investigator: Minoo Moallem, Associate Professor of Women's Studies
San Francisco State University
Email: Minoom@sfsu.edu

My research project focuses on the emerging forms of transnational governmentality, consumerism and citizenship in relation to globalization as experienced by immigrants in general and the Iranian diaspora in particular. I am investigating those social and virtual spaces where taken-for-granted boundaries separating states, nations and civil societies are blurred and replaced by new spaces of daily life and new sources of economic, cultural and political agency. By examining the deployment of new information technologies among, and the importance of cyberspace for, immigrant and diasporic communites, I analyze the parallel constructions of nationalized and transnationalized cultural and economic formations with respect to gender, race, ethnicity and class. My methods of inquiry include the exploration of representational practices employed in these spaces as well as semi-structured interviews and ethnography to illustrate the ways in which immigrant subjects constitute, and are constituted by, new regimes of governmentality, consumerism and citizenship.

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