Introduction: Displacement and New Sociabilities
In this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…
Read MoreIn this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees…
Read MoreTourism creates and depends on an entanglement of temporary and permanent displacements; at the same time it manipulates and projects dreams of freedom. This…
Read More‘At home,’ we are in full command of the dialectics of knowledge and recognition. Jean Améry, “How Much Home Does a Person Need?” (1966:…
Read MoreThis post explores the notion of displacement through the experience of Franziska, who has spent her whole life in a peaceful touristic village of…
Read MoreIn a situation of displacement, migrants and Argentinians forge social relations and thereby emplace themselves in a Buenos Aires shopping centre. Doing research on…
Read MoreThrough the notion of simultaneity I explore the emotional and affective dimension of the displacement-emplacement continuum within transnational migration and hint to the need…
Read MoreDehumanisation is at the core of displacement: it requires that a group of people—because of race, class, migration status, or other factors—have lesser access…
Read MoreBased on the experiences of two young Eritreans who arrived in Switzerland as unaccompanied minors, this article thinks through the feeling of being made…
Read MoreIn Brazilian squats, a ‘local population struggles for their ‘right to the city’ and a ‘migrant’ population tries to establish and improve their lives…
Read MoreMatan Kaminer is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan and a member of the Israeli Anthropological Association and of Academia for Equality,…
Read MoreReflections on the EASA Conference at the University of Milano-Bicocca, 20-23 July, 2016 : “Anthropological legacies and human futures” It was the last day of…
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