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Raah Media Research Lab
Based in the Film and Moving Image Studies Department at Concordia, Raah aims to examine the intersection of migratory processes and media practices.
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Upcoming Event
Migration and Media Workshop: Subaltern Perspectives
October 4-5, 2024 | Concordia University, John Molson Building (9th Floor)
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Featured Publication
Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal
Sarah Bassnett & Ishita Tiwary 2023
In Photography and Culture, Vol 16, No 3, 267-277, 2023
About The Lab
Raah is a media research lab based in the Film and Moving Image Studies Department at Concordia. It aims to examine the intersection of migratory processes and media practices. Taking our cue from the evocations offered by the Persian word raah – which can mean ways or passage, and its underlying resonances of fellow-traveler, or companion, Raah aims to investigate the many methodological pathways open to researchers in migration and media studies.
Raah's project is a community-driven model, which hopes to bring together scholars, activists and community partners in a single space, becoming the first institutional hub in Canada for the study of media and migration. Raah aims to host both theoretical and practice-based research, as well as community-facing projects, in order to investigate the questions of immigration, hospitality, marginalization and their mediatized forms.
Recent Events
No One Is Disposable: A Conversation with Mustafa Henaway
The Raah Lab hosted Mostafa Henaway on Feb 23, 2024 for a discussion of his newly published book Essential Work, Disposable Workers.
2024-02-01
Tunnel Visions and Activisms: A Conversation With Feng-Mei Heberer and Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
The Raah Lab hosted Feng-Mei Heberer and Juan Llamas-Rodriguez for a conversation about their recently published books.
2024-02-01
On Global Streaming: A Workshop With Dr. Amanda Lotz
Dr. Amanda Lotz, a leading scholar on television and streaming cultures, conducted a workshop on the theme of “global streaming” at Raah
2023-11-01
The Moment of Violence in an Age of Mass Forensics
Francis Cody is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Asian Institute
2023-09-08
Research
Streaming and India’s film-centred video culture: Linguistic and formal diversity
Ishita Tiwary 2024
International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol 27, No 1, 65-81, 2024.
Migratory Technology: Piracy and Bazaar Culture in India and Nepal
Sarah Bassnett & Ishita Tiwary 2023
In Photography and Culture, Vol 16, No 3, 267-277, 2023
"OTT is Exactly What TV is Not”: Structural Adjustment and Shifts in India Scriptwriting
Ishita Tiwary 2023
in Amanda Lotz and Ramon Lobato ed. Streaming Video: Storytelling Across Borders, New York University Press, 2023.
Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility
Claire Begbie 2023
Migrant Instability
Migrant Instability @ Mai | Montréal, arts interculturels
2023
Migrant Instability is a duo exhibition that questions what one carries and/or what one leaves behind when they “move”. The presented works attempt to create a dialogue between the violently transformative experiences of a first-generation immigrant (Jin) and the constant state of displacement a second-generation immigrant (Park) experiences throughout their life. For Jin and Park, the heightened hostility against Asian bodies during the pandemic has also heightened the physical and spiritual disconnection from diasporic homelands.
2023
This SSHRC funded project organized in collaboration with the nonprofit social housing organization Brique par Brique (Brick by Brick) aimed to explore how social housing can be imagined as mutual aid via participatory media-making practices and involved participants from Parc Ex documenting their neighborhood through video diaries. The project was initiated through conducting a three-day workshop led by Teagan Lance which provided the participants with training in videography, sound recording and editing. The project culminated in a screening of shorts films made by two participants Judy Wong and Meryem Ouadban on 3 June 2023 at the Brique par Brique Community Centre.
2023
The Raah podcast originated from a Pilot episode positioning disability as a figure of the migrant. Jared interviewed independent singer/songwriter Tarquin Alexandra about her upcoming album about disability and her experiences of exclusion and isolation as a chronically ill woman during the sociological production of the end of the pandemic. Future episodes of this podcast are in development, including a recap of the lab’s disability studies reading group. The goal of the podcast will be to explore further unconventional figures of the migrant, experimenting with the critical tools we can develop by expanding the scope of this definition.
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