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Being-here : placemaking in a world of movement / Annika Lems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lems, Annika, author.
- Series:
- Eisenbahn-Sammelheft ; 33.
- ESA series ; 35
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Somalis--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--Social conditions.
- Somalis.
- Somalis--Cultural assimilation--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.).
- Refugees--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--Social conditions.
- Refugees.
- Place attachment--Social aspects--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.).
- Place attachment.
- Alienation (Social psychology)--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.).
- Alienation (Social psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- 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).
- Contents:
- Walkers of the everyday
- Placing Somalia
- Living one-eyed
- An accidental move
- Home-building
- Homewards
- At home in the universe
- Gendered dis/emplacements
- Displaced stories
- Placeless dreams
- Final juncture : concluding words.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781785338502
- 1785338501
- OCLC:
- 1032290158
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