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Materialising Exile

Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand
Forced Migration, Band 27 1. Aufl.

von: Sandra Dudley
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	01.03.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9781845458096
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	204

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Titelbeschreibung

Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile.
 The combined emphasis on both displacement and materiality, and the analysis of the cultural construction and intersections of exilic objects, spaces, and bodies, are unique in the study of both refugees and material culture. Drawing theoretical influences from phenomenology, aesthetics, and beyond, as well as from refugee studies and anthropology, the author addresses the current lack of theoretical analysis of the material, visual, spatial, and embodied aspects of forced migration, providing a fundamentally interlinked analysis of enforced exile and materiality.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations
 Chapter 1. Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees: An Introduction The Sensoriality and Materiality of Exile Continuity with Past Times and Places Being at Home, Being in Place The Karenni Materialising Exile: Refugee Studies, Material Culture Studies and Beyond
 Chapter 2. In-Between: Being a Karenni Refugee Burmese Refugees in Thailand The Karenni Camps Being a Refugee: Self-Perceptions Material Forms, Bodies and Sense Experience in Being a Refugee Coping With Life in the Camps: Habit and Consuming Time Liminality
 Chapter 3. Inside/Outside: Refugee Journeys Journeys to and from the Camps Cross-Border Movement and Knowledge Forms of Knowledge and Emotional Response Memory and Feeling in Journey Narratives Journeying as Normal Landscape, Senses, Bodies and Things
 Chapter 4. Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-exile Past Dress and Connections with the Past Dïy-küw and Thoughts of Home Moving Beyond Rupture
 Chapter 5. Coping and (Re)constructing ‘Home’ in Displacement Wider Contexts and Influences … and T-shirts Objects, Landscapes, Bodies: Metaphors and Foils for Experience Making Things, Making Place, Making Self Becoming ‘At Home’ in Exile
 Chapter 6. Materialising Home and Exile Conceptions of Home Continuity and Change Exilic Objects and Bodies Feeling Right With and In the World
 Bibliography Index

Autorenportrait

Sandra Dudley has worked with and on Karenni refugees since 1996, completing her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2001. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, having previously taught at Oxford and UEA and worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum.