Materialising exile : material culture and embodied experience among Karenni refugees in Thailand / Sandra H. Dudley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dudley, Sandra.

Series:

Studies in forced migration ; v. 27.

Studies in forced migration ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Refugees--Burma--Kayah State--Social conditions.

Refugees.

Refugees--Thailand--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Other Title:

Materializing exile

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 a

Contents:

Materialising Exile; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees; Chapter 2: In-Between; Chapter 3: Inside/Outside; Chapter 4: Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-Exile Past; Chapter 5: Coping and (Re)constructing 'Home' in Displacement; Chapter 6: Materialising Home and Exile; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-183) and index.

ISBN:

9786612627170

9781282627178

1282627171

9781845458096

1845458095

OCLC:

645100997