Being-Here

Placemaking in a World of Movement
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-849-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 524 g

Reihe: EASA Series

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people’s everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement, and moves anthropological theory towards a new understanding of the crucial existential links between Sein (Being) and Da (Here).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lems, Annika

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Greeting Xamar

PART I: THINKING WHAT WE ARE DOING

Chapter 1. Walkers of the Everyday

PART II: EMPLACEMENT

Chapter 2. Placing Somalia

Chapter 3. Living One-Eyed

Chapter 4. An Accidental Move

Chapter 5. Home-Building

Chapter 6. Homewards

PART III: DISPLACEMENT

Chapter 7. At Home in the Universe

Chapter 8. Gendered Dis/Emplacements

Chapter 9. Displaced Stories

Chapter 10. Placeless Dreams

Final Juncture: Concluding Words

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lems, Annika
Annika Lems is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She completed her PhD at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. Her work is influenced by existential and phenomenological approaches in anthropology and philosophy, and her research focuses on the themes of mobility and immobility, place and displacement, visual and narrative storytelling, and memory and temporality.

Annika Lems is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She completed her PhD at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. Her work is influenced by existential and phenomenological approaches in anthropology and philosophy, and her research focuses on the themes of mobility and immobility, place and displacement, visual and narrative storytelling, and memory and temporality.