Collective
Diasporic Publics
Explore in the Atlas →Appadurai's deterritorialised collectivities — dispersed populations of migrants, exiles and their descendants who sustain shared identity and political imagination across borders through media flows rather than common territory. Distinct from the territorial nation, diasporic publics are constituted through the ethnoscape and mediascape, and they reshape the built environment via remittance housing, transnational institutions and the architectures of migrant settlement.
Migration Collectivity Sign
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Lived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Degree of codification
- Protocol performed
- Mode of transmission
- Digital model
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- circulates through Ethnoscape
Referenced by
- Arjun Appadurai associated with
- Homi K. Bhabha relates to
Sources
- n.d..
- n.d..
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Diasporic Publics." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/collective/diasporic-publics/. Accessed July 17, 2026.