Struggles for Home by Stef Jansen
Based on anthropological studies across the globe, this book explores the experiences and contested meanings of home for people whose lives are characterized by migration related to varying forms of violence. Taking seriously the political implications and exploitation of discourses of home in the transnational processes...-
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The Anti-Refugee Machine
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Insidious Capital
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Paradoxes of State Capitalism
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Crude Domination
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Where Are All Our Sheep?
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Worldwide Mobilizations
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Facing the Crisis
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The Partial Revolution
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Fifty Years of Peasant Wars in Latin America
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Bulldozer Capitalism
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From Village Commons to Public Goods
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Where Have All the Homeless Gone?
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Slipping Away
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Class, Contention, and a World in Motion
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Yearnings in the Meantime
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Breaking Rocks
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Indigenist Mobilization
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Made in Sheffield
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The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
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Brazilian Steel Town
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Big Capital in an Unequal World
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Blood and Fire
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Intellectuals and (Counter-) Politics
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Urbanizing the Future
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Democracy Struggles
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility
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When Women Held the Dragon's Tongue
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Enduring Uncertainty
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Participating in the Global Enterprise
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Elusive Promises
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Biopolitics, Militarism, and Development
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Blood and Oranges
"[A] theoretical milestone that signposts provocative new directions for scholars and students of displacementThis volume offers an exceptional critical synthesis of emergent strands of thinking about displacement while also posing new questions about how processes of 'home making, un-making, and re-making' unfold for people who must navigate the socially transformative and uncertain conditions generated by conflict and structural violence." · Stephen C. Lubkemann, author of Culture in Chaos: An Anthropology of the Social Condition in War
Stef Jansen is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester. His research centres upon critical ethnographic investigations of home and hope with regard to nation, place and state transformation on the intersection of postwar and postsocialist change in the post-Yugoslav states.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781845455231 |
| ISBN 10 | 1845455231 |
| Title | Struggles for Home |
| Author | Stef Jansen |
| Series | Dislocations |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books |
| Year published | 2008-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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