Struggles for Home : : Violence, Hope and the Movement of People / / ed. by Stef Jansen, Staffan Löfving.

• MitwirkendeR: Barrett, Michael,; Jansen, Stef,; Kelly, Tobias,; Loizos, Peter,; Löfving, Staffan,; Potot, Swanie,; Stepputat, Finn,; Thiranagama, Sharika,
• HerausgeberIn: Jansen, Stef,; Löfving, Staffan,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Dislocations ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the social practice of home-making amongst people whose lives are characterized by movement and violence. Social scientific and policy understandings of home and migration tend to focus on territory, culture and nation, often carrying implicit 'sedentarist' assumptions of a naturalised link between people and particular places. This book challenges such views, drawing attention instead to unpredictable forms of dwelling in the often violent processes that connect yet differently affect the movement of people and capital. Taking seriously the political implications of this challenge, the authors do not resort to a free floating, placeless approach. Instead, through the detailed ethnography of lived experiences of displacement and emplacement, *Struggles for Home* investigates the power sedentarism may have to provide or prohibit hope. Research conducted in Sri Lanka, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Zambia, Cyprus, the Palestinian West Bank, Guatemala, and amongst Romanians and Moroccans in Spain articulates a novel theoretical framework for the development of a critical political anthropology of one of the most controversial and fascinating issues of our time - the remaking of home in migration.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Towards an Anthropology of Violence, Hope and the Movement of People -- 1 RETURNING TO PALESTINE Confinement and Displacement under Israeli Occupation -- 2 TROUBLED LOCATIONS Return, the Life Course and Transformations of Home in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- 3 THE LOSS OF HOME From Passion to Pragmatism in Cyprus -- 4 THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CROSSING STATE BORDERS Home, Mobility and Life Paths in the Angolan–Zambian Borderland -- 5 STRATEGIES OF VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, Spain -- 6 ANEW MORNING? Reoccupying Home in the Aftermath of Violence in Sri Lanka -- 7 LIBERAL EMPLACEMENT Violence, Home and the Transforming Space of Popular Protest in Central America -- POSTSCRIPT Home, Fragility and Irregulation: Reflections on Ethnographies of Im/mobility -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX