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.

edited by Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving

Jansen, Stef; Löfving, Staffan

Steff Jansen

Dislocations -- 3, New York, New York State, 2008

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Dislocations, volume 3, New York, 2009

Oxford, 2008

1, 2008

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Based On Anthropological Studies Across The Globe, This Book Explores The Experiences And Contested Meanings Of Home For People Whose Lives Are Characterized By Migration Related To Varying Forms Of Violence. Taking Seriously The Political Implications And Exploitation Of Discourses Of Home In The Transnational Processes That Connect, Yet Differently Affect, The Movement Of People And Capital, It Challenges The Sedentarist Assumption That Territoriality And Nation Are Necessarily The Primary Determinants Of Identification. However, It Does Not Replace This Sedentarism With A Free Floating, Placeless Approach. Instead, Through The Detailed Ethnography Of Actual Experiences Of Displacement And Emplacement, It Investigates The Power Sedentarist Discourses May Have To Provide Or Prohibit Hope. In Struggles For Home The Focus Is Turned Onto Hope, Aspiration And A Sense Of Worth As Necessary Building Blocks In The Reconstruction Of The Social, Amidst The Violence Of Political And Economic Transformation. 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. --book Jacket. Introduction: Towards An Anthropology Of Violence, Hope And The Movement Of People / Stef Jansen And Staffan Löfving -- Returning To Palestine: Confinement And Displacement Under Israeli Occupation / Tobias Kelly -- Troubled Locations: Return, The Life Course And Transformations Of Home In Bosnia-herzegovina / Stef Jansen -- The Loss Of Home: From Passion To Pragmatism In Cyprus / Peter Loizos -- The Social Significance Of Crossing State Borders: Home, Mobility And Life Paths In The Angolan-zambian Borderland / Michael Barrett -- Strategies Of Visibility And Invisibility: Rumanians And Moroccans In El Ejido, Spain / Swanie Potot -- A New Morning? Reoccupying Home In The Aftermath Of Violence In Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama -- Liberal Emplacement: Violence, Home And The Transforming Space Of Popular Protest In Central America / Staffan Löfving -- Postscript: Home, Fragility And Irregulation: Reflections On Ethnographies Of Im/mobility / Finn Stepputat. Edited By Stef Jansen And Staffan Löfving. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Introduction: towards an anthropology of violence, hope and the movement of people / Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving, Staffan
Returning to Palestine: confinement and displacement under Israeli occupation / Tobias Kelly
Troubled locations: return, the life course and transformations of home in Bosnia-Herzegovina / Stef Jansen
The loss of home: from passion to pragmatism in Cyprus / Peter Loizos
The social significance of crossing state borders: home, mobility and life paths in the Angolan-Zambian borderland / Michael Barrett
Strategies of visibility and invisibility: Rumanians and Moroccans in El Ejido, Spain / Swanie Potot
A new morning?: reoccupying home in the aftermath of violence in Sri Lanka / Sharika Thiranagama
Liberal emplacement: violence, home and the transforming space of popular protest in Central America / Staffan Löfving, Staffan
Postscript: home, fragility and irregulation: reflections on ethnographies of im/mobility / Finn Stepputat
Notes on contributors
Index.

vi, 192 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index

2023-06-28