Struggles for home [electronic resource] : violence, hope and the movement of people / edited by Stef Jansen and Staffan Löfving.

Contributor(s): Series: Dislocations ; v. 3Publication details: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.Description: vi, 192 p. ; 25 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.8 22
LOC classification:
  • JV6342 .S78 2009eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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