Uprootings/regroundings
Subtitle: questions of home and migration
By: edited by Sara Ahmed ... [et al.].
Contributors: Ahmed, Sara.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Berg Publishers; Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects; Moving, Household -- Psychological aspects; Assimilation (Sociology); Identity (Psychology); Home; Strangers; Immigrants -- Psychology
Table of contents: title: Introduction: uprootings/regroundings: questions of home and migration / Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castaẽda, Anne-Marie Fortier, Mimi Sheller; title: Part I Bodies at home and away. I still call Australia home: indigenous belonging and place in a white post-colonizing society / Aileen Moreton-Robinson; title: The home of language: a pedagogy of the stammer / Sneja Gunew; title: 'Dis-orientalisms': displaced bodies/embodied displacements in contemporary Palestinian art / Gannit Ankori; title: Taking (a) place: female embodiment and the re-grounding of community / Irene Gedalof; title: Part II Family ties. Making home: queer migrations and motions of attachment / Anne-Marie Fortier; title: Nostalgia, desire, diaspora: South Asian sexualities in motion / Gayatri Gopinath; title: Global modernities and the gendered epic of the 'Irish empire' / Breda Gray; title: 'They're family!': cultural geographies of relatedness in popular genealogy / Catherine Nash; title: Part III Trans/nations and border crossings. Transporting the subject: technologies of mobility and location in an era of globalization / Caren Kaplan; title: Technological frontiers and the politics of mobility in the European Union / Ginette Verstraete; title: The difference borders make: (il)legality, migration and trafficking in Italy among Eastern European women in prostitution / Rutvica Andrijasevic; title: Creolization in discourses of global culture / Mimi Sheller.