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Materialising exile : material culture and embodied experience among Karenni refugees in Thailand /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2010.
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| Colección: | Studies in forced migration ;
v. 27. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees: An Introduction: The Sensoriality and Materiality of Exile ; Continuity with Past Times and Places ; Being at home, being in place ; The Karenni ; Materialising Exile: Refugee Studies, Material Culture Studies and Beyond
- 2. In-Between: Being a Karenni Refugee ; Burmese Refugees in Thailand ; The Karenni Camps ; Being a Refugee: Self-Perceptions ; Material Forms, Bodies and Sense Experience in Being a Refugee ; Coping With Life in the Camps: Habit and Consuming Time Liminality
- 3. Inside/Outside: Refugee Journeys ; Journeys to and from the Camps ; Cross-Border Movement and Knowledge ; Forms of Knowledge and Emotional Response ; Memory and Feeling in Journey Narratives ; Journeying as Normal ; Landscape, Senses, Bodies and Things
- 4. Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-exile Past ; Dress and Connections with the Past, Diy-kuw and Thoughts of Home ; Moving Beyond Rupture
- 5. Coping and (Re)constructing 'Home' in Displacement ; Wider Contexts and Influences
- and T-shirts ; Objects, Landscapes, Bodies: Metaphors and Foils for Experience ; Making Things, Making Place, Making Self ; Becoming 'At Home' in Exile
- 6. Materialising Home and Exile ; Conceptions of Home ; Continuity and Change ; Exilic Objects and Bodies ; Feeling Right With and In the World.