Mai Nou Xiong-Gum
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Mai Nou Xiong-Gum
@maixgum.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Communication Studies. Teaching Media + Society and Culture/Power/Marginality. Researching mobilities, networks, participatory media, and culture.
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In Theorizing Refuge as Refusal, I intervene in Arendt’s framework of assimilation and political erasure by proposing refusal as a mode of engaging the refugee experience.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Theorizing refuge as refusal: ethical world-making through Khuv Xim, Muaj Chaw, and Ua Ib Siab
This essay theorizes refuge as refusal by examining how Hmong refugees engage in ethical world-making through embodied attachment (khuv xim), presence-making (muaj chaw), and ethical negotiation (u...
www.tandfonline.com
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August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
In Theorizing Refuge as Refusal, I intervene in Arendt’s framework of assimilation and political erasure by proposing refusal as a mode of engaging the refugee experience.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Theorizing refuge as refusal: ethical world-making through Khuv Xim, Muaj Chaw, and Ua Ib Siab
This essay theorizes refuge as refusal by examining how Hmong refugees engage in ethical world-making through embodied attachment (khuv xim), presence-making (muaj chaw), and ethical negotiation (u...
www.tandfonline.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Rethinking this: youtu.be/YP5F7-RwVgM?...
HUMAN FLOW | Official Trailer | 2017 [HD]
YouTube video by Roadshow Films
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January 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM