Struggles for Home : : Violence, Hope and the Movement of People /

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

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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 carr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.)
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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

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