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Remembering And Feeling The Nation: Circulations Of Emotions Of The Imagined Community In The Contemporary Venezuelan Diaspora, Neidegar Martinez Parra
Remembering And Feeling The Nation: Circulations Of Emotions Of The Imagined Community In The Contemporary Venezuelan Diaspora, Neidegar Martinez Parra
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In the last five years Venezuela registered its first massive migration due to economic and sociopolitical circumstances. In this context, I explore visual discourses in which diasporic subjects imagine a modern nation through circulations of emotions and memories on Instagram. The Chromatic Environment, a piece by Carlos Cruz-Díez located at the Simón Bolívar International Airport, along with natural landscapes and circulations of commodities, become the evocative referents for Venezuelan diasporic subjects to claim their sense of belonging. A visual analysis of images reveals how Venezuelan migrants circulate their longing for recuperating and restoring icons, symbols, and consumption practices as …