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Abstract
Moving Places draws together contributions from Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa, exploring practices and experiences of movement, non-movement, and place-making. The book centers on “moving places”: places with locations that are not fixed but relative. Locations appearing to be reasonably stable, such as home and homeland, are in fact always subject to practices, imaginaries, and politics of movement. Bringing together original ethnographic contributions with a clear theoretical focus, this volume spans the fields of anthropology, human geography, migration, and border studies, and serves as teaching material in related programs.
Jaka Repič is Associate Professor and Researcher at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana.
“This is a well conceived and well executed volume that addresses an important and timely constellation of themes regarding movement, (im)mobilities, dislocations, reorientations, return, and memory in a range of compelling sociocultural contexts.“ · Peter Kirby, University of Oxford
“This book makes a good argument for considering “place” in understandings of human mobility, migration, and movement.” · Deborah Reed-Danahay, SUNY, Buffalo
Nataša Gregorič Bon is Research Fellow at the Institute of Anthropological and Spatial Studies of the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Half-title | i | ||
| Title | iii | ||
| Imprint | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Chapter 1: The (Im)Mobility of Merantau as a Sociocultural Practice in Indonesia | 21 | ||
| Chapter 2: Away, Within and Forward – Wayfaring towards Better Lives | 43 | ||
| Chapter 3: Rooting Routes – (Non-)Movements in Southern Albania | 63 | ||
| Chapter 4: Tracing Roots – Slovenian Diaspora in Argentina and Return Mobilities | 85 | ||
| Chapter 5: Triggering Movement in Places of Belonging – Jazz Festival Organizers as Locals-Cosmopolitans in a Small Slovenian Town | 105 | ||
| Chapter 6: Relational Centres in the Amazonian Landscape of Movement | 126 | ||
| Chapter 7: Displaced in the Native City – Mobilities and Locality in Post-war Sarajevo | 148 | ||
| Chapter 8: From a Tent to a House, from Nomads to Settlers – Constructions of Space and Place through Romani Narratives | 172 | ||
| Chapter 9: Movement versus Roots? Ivory Coast – from Transnational Brotherhood to Autochthony | 194 | ||
| Epilogue: Moving Places – Relations, Return and Belonging | 211 | ||
| Index | 223 |