Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published on South Asian cinema, fiction and history, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain, focusing especially on anarchism, revolutions and riots.

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• Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization 1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process 2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter 3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations 4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture 5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues 6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana 7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature 8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry

Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published on South Asian cinema, fiction and history, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain, focusing especially on anarchism, revolutions and riots.

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• Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization 1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process 2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter 3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations 4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture 5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues 6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana 7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature 8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry

Florian Stadtler is a Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, UK. He has published on South Asian cinema, fiction and history, including Fiction, Film and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination. He is the reviews editor for Wasafiri: The Magazine of International Contemporary Writing.Ole Birk Laursen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research concerns the literature and history of anti-colonial and postcolonial resistances in Britain, focusing especially on anarchism, revolutions and riots.

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• Introduction – Networking the globe: culture, technologies, globalization 1. Connecting the peripheries: networks, place and scale in the World Social Forum process 2. Arguing about religion: BBC World Service Internet forums as sites of postcolonial encounter 3. Panopticons within panopticons: surveillance inversions in Willie Doherty’s video installations 4. The borders of virtual space: new information technologies and European Islamic youth culture 5. New media beyond neo-imperialism: Betty Boop and Sita Sings the Blues 6. Pluralism and cultural imperialism in the network films Babel and Lantana 7. The global and the postcolonial in post-migratory literature 8. The cartography of the local in Arun Kolatkar’s poetry