" A] theoretical milestone that signposts provocative new
directions for scholars and students of displacement. This volume
offers an exceptional critical synthesis of emergent strands of
thinking about displacement while also posing new questions about
how processes of 'home making, un-making, and re-making' unfold for
people who must navigate the socially transformative and uncertain
conditions generated by conflict and structural violence." .
Stephen C. Lubkemann, author of Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology
of the Social Condition in War
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.
Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
University of Manchester. His research centres upon critical
ethnographic investigations of home and hope with regard to nation,
place and state transformation on the intersection of postwar and
postsocialist change in the post-Yugoslav states.
Staffan Lofving is Lecturer in the Department of Social
Anthropology, Stockholm University. The editor of books on Cultural
Economics (2005) and Identity Politics (2002), his current research
revolves around the neoliberal social contract in Colombian and
Central American polities.
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