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Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
Ane Marie Ørbø Kirkegaard
Malmö University ane.kirkegaard@mah.se
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ABSTRACT
Rhodesians occupy a very specific digitalized time-space bubble at the very edges of a margin that researchers think of as “past” In this study, I trace the memorization of the Rhodesian Bush War on YouTube, of what it was like to fight for a dream and see it crumble in an isolated and highly racialized society. Through narrative analysis focusing on identity formation and social networks of relationships, a militaryromantic story of racialized masculine heroism, suffering and sacrifice is pieced together, forming a globally shared Rhodesian space-time bubble of meaningfulness, making it an active part of the present as much as a remnant of the past.
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ANE MARIE ØRBØ KIRKEGAARD teaches peace and conflict studies at Malmö University. Her research includes field research among black and white Zimbabweans on family planning and sexuality; locating reproductive and sexual behavior at the intersection of colonial politics; war and postcolonial development; conflict-induced student migration and higher education; and the digitalization of Rhodesian representations of “home” within the project “Excursions into Marginality: The Rhodesian Diaspora’s Speaking of Home on the Internet”