Moving Subjects, Moving Objects : : Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions /

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

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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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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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

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