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Struggles for Home - Violence, Hope and the Movement of People (Hardcover, New)
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Struggles for Home - Violence, Hope and the Movement of People (Hardcover, New)
Series: Dislocations
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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. 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 transformation, with particular
reference to the post-Yugoslav states. Staffan Lofving is at the
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University. The author
of books on cultural economics (2005) and identity politics (2002),
his current research deals with violence in post-war processes of
political and economic liberalisation."
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