“Happy” in Za’atari: Difference and Global Belonging in the Refugee Camp Imaginary
This article analyzes two video remakes of Pharrell Williams’s hit song “Happy” portraying Za’atari refugee children. I discuss the role that the “Happy” tribute video trend had in developing a global imaginary that lends itself to current conversations around humanitarian happiness and “deexception...
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Bauman, Emily
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- 2022
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- Universidad EAFIT
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- Za’atari refugee camp
Pharrell Williams
YouTube
global humanitarianism
Campo de refugiados Zaatari
Pharrell Williams
YouTube
humanitarismo global
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Universidad de New YorkBauman, Emily20222024-02-16T20:20:14Z20222024-02-16T20:20:14Z1794-58872539-1208https://hdl.handle.net/10784/3332710.17230/co-herencia.19.36.7This article analyzes two video remakes of Pharrell Williams’s hit song “Happy” portraying Za’atari refugee children. I discuss the role that the “Happy” tribute video trend had in developing a global imaginary that lends itself to current conversations around humanitarian happiness and “deexceptionalizing” migration and humanitarian space. I look at the videos in relationship to this trend and to the media construction of Za’atari camp as “city.” In the context of this debate and reading the videos through the paradigm of global urbanness such as we also see in the “Happy” craze, I argue that in fact the videos show the limits of the ideology of global belonging when it comes to the refugee camp and of the incommensurability of contemporary humanitarian and global imaginaries, even in an age defined by the sway of new media.Este artículo analiza dos nuevas versiones en video de la exitosa canción “Happy” de Pharrell Williams, donde se representa a niños refugiados de Zaatari. Se debatirá el rol que tuvo la tendencia del video tributo “Happy” en el desarrollo de un imaginario global que se presta a discusión actualmente respecto a la felicidad altruista y el hecho de no dar un trato de excepción a la migración y al espacio humanitario. Observo videos en relación con esta tendencia y de la construcción de los medios del campo Zaatari como una “ciudad”. En el contexto de esta discusión e interpretación de los videos a través del paradigma de la urbanidad global, tal como vemos en el popular video “Happy”, sostengo que, de hecho, los videos muestran los límites de la ideología de pertenencia global cuando se trata de un campo de refugiados, y de la inconmensurabilidad de los imaginarios humanitarios y globales contemporáneos, incluso en una era definida por la influencia de los nuevos medios.application/pdfengUniversidad EAFIThttps://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/7083https://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/co-herencia/article/view/7083Copyright © 2022 Emily BaumanopenAccessLibre accesohttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Co-herencia, Vol. 19, Núm. 36 (2022)“Happy” in Za’atari: Difference and Global Belonging in the Refugee Camp Imaginary“Happy” en Zaatari: Desigualdad y pertenencia global en el imaginario del campo de refugiadosarticleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlepublishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArtículohttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1Za’atari refugee campPharrell WilliamsYouTubeglobal humanitarianismCampo de refugiados ZaatariPharrell WilliamsYouTubehumanitarismo globalCo-herencia1936183206ORIGINALhappy-in-zaatari.pdfTexto completoapplication/pdf291555https://repository.eafit.edu.co/bitstreams/99538f08-dacd-4079-8cd0-b0df7150a22a/downloade840f58909c90a0585b4029b0f037726MD51THUMBNAILminiatura-coherencia[536].jpgCarátulaimage/jpeg230829https://repository.eafit.edu.co/bitstreams/b5cba804-c7c5-491f-9f93-63ac7cdd7c38/download6c3e6ec217fd7c11f79cdda26d9319a2MD5210784/33327oai:repository.eafit.edu.co:10784/333272024-02-16 16:01:42.699open.accesshttps://repository.eafit.edu.coRepositorio Institucional Universidad EAFITrepositorio@eafit.edu.co |
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