New technologies for ethno-nationalist imagining. The case of Moldavian Csangos Cover Image

New technologies for ethno-nationalist imagining. The case of Moldavian Csangos
New technologies for ethno-nationalist imagining. The case of Moldavian Csangos

Author(s): Călin Cotoi
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: ceangai; Csangos; media and anthropology; nationalizing strategy; cyberspace; autochtonism; cyberanthropology; The cyberspace between liberty and categorization;

Summary/Abstract: The Csangos are a hard to define ethnic/religious minority. They have been rather recently recognized and instituted as a minority. According to the 2002 census, the recorded number of declared Csangos was of 769. There is a huge discrepancy between these figures and the ones used by some scholars . from 70.000 to 100.000 . that cannot be dismissed as just the result of technical counting problems and even less of scholarly (dis)honesty. This paper tries to delve on the possibility conditions for imagining the Csangos through new global communication technologies.

  • Issue Year: 6/2008
  • Issue No: 03-04
  • Page Range: 163-170
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English