Travelling towards Home (eBook)

Mobilities and Homemaking

Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn (Herausgeber)

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2018
190 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-956-1 (ISBN)

Infos

As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "e;at home."e;

Autoren

Tom Selwyn is Leverhulme Emeritus Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. For over a decade, he directed/co-directed research and development work for the European Commission’s TEMPUS and MED-HERITAGE programs in the Mediterranean region, and presently directs a project in rural tourism development in Ethiopia for the British Council and Department for International Development.

Nicola Frost has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. She has conducted fieldwork in Indonesia, Australia and the UK, working on community organization, multiculturalism, and the cultural politics of food and festivals. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at City University London and SOAS and now works for the Devon Community Foundation, doing research, data analysis and evaluation.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Home and Homemaking in a Time of Crisis
Tom Selwyn and Nicola Frost

Chapter 1. Homing Desires: Queer Young Asian Men in London
Chand Starin Basi and Kaveri Qureshi

Chapter 2. Homeawayness and Life-Project Building: Homemaking Among Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Shuhua Chen

Chapter 3. Between a Home and a Homeland: Experiences of Jewish Return Migrants in Ukraine
Marina Sapritsky

Chapter 4. Who Makes ‘Old England’ Home? Tourism and Migration in the English Countryside
Yuko Shioji

Chapter 5. Modalities of Space, Time, and Voice in Palestinian Hip-Hop Narratives
Ilana Webster-Kogan

Chapter 6. My Maluku Manise: Managing Desire and Despair in the Diaspora
Nicola Frost

Chapter 7. Anecdotes of Movement and Belonging: Intertwining Strands of the Professional and the Personal
Colin Murray

Afterword
Tom Selwyn

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
• Reihe/Serie: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: ancestors • Anthropology • Apartheid • belonging • border • Class • Community • DAM • Diaspora • english countryside • ex-Soviet Jews • family histories • forced migration • General Anthropology • Hip-Hop • Home • homeawayness • HOMELY • homing desires • Hospitality • Identity • India • inner landscape • Interdisciplinary work • island project • Landscape • life-project • Maluku • Migration • Nation • National Allegory • Nostalgia • Old England • packing • Palestine • Place • Placemaking, Mobility Studies, Transnationalism, Immigration, Ethnography, Migration • queer diaspora • Return Migration • Sexuality • Sexual orientation • solidarities • South Asia • space • Tourism • unhomely
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-956-7 / 1785339567
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-956-1 / 9781785339561