Materialising Exile

Material Culture and Embodied Experience among Karenni Refugees in Thailand
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84545-640-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Forced Migration

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dudley, Sandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dudley, Sandra
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.