Travelling towards Home

Mobilities and Homemaking

192 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "at home."

• Reihe: Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie
• ISBN: 9781785339554
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2018
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn