Moving Subjects, Moving Objects : : Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions / / ed. by Maruška Svašek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Burrell, Kathy,; Grønseth, Anne Sigfrid,; Lau, Timm,; Maiti, Sameera,; Milic, Enrico Maria,; O’Neill, Maggie,; Parrott, Fiona R.,; Plasquy, Eddy,; Schultz, Deborah,; Svašek, Maruška,; Wainwrigh, Leon,
• HerausgeberIn: Svašek, Maruška,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Affective Moves: Transit, Transition and Transformation -- 1 Materiality, Memories and Emotions: A View on Migration from a Street in South London -- 2 The Objects of Christmas: The Politics of Festive Materiality in the Lives of Polish Immigrants -- 3 From Shop to Chapel: The Changing Emotional Efficacy of the Statue of the Virgin Mary of El Rocío within a Spanish Community in Belgium -- 4 Sweater Business: Commodity Exchange and the Mediation of Agency in the Tibetan Itinerant Sweater Trade in India -- 5 Moving Tamils, Moving Amulets: Creating Self-identity, Belonging and Emotional Well-being -- 6 The Price of Progress: ‘Dying Arts’ among the Karen of the Andaman Islands, India -- 7 Artefacts as Mediators through Time and Space: The Reproduction of Roots in the Diaspora of Lussignani -- 8 Making Connections: Biography, Art, Affect and Politics -- 9 Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist’s Book -- 10 The Emotions and Ethnicity in the Indo-Caribbean -- 11 ‘What You Perceive Is What You Conceive’: Evaluating Subjects and Objects through Emotions -- Notes on Contributors -- Index