Uprootings/Regroundings Questions of Home and Migration

by Ahmed, Sara; Castañeda, Claudia; Fortie, Anne-Marie

• ISBN13: 9781859736296
• ISBN10: 1859736297
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-17
• Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd

Summary

What is the relationship between leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays? What interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive and leave? Focusing on differences of race, gender, class and sexuality, the contributors reveal how the movements of bodies and communities are intrinsic to the making of homes, nations, identities and boundaries. They reflect on the different experiences of being at home, leaving home, and going home. They also explore ways in which attachment to place and locality can be secured--as well as challenged--through the movements that make up our dwelling places.

Author Biography

Sara Ahmed Lecturer in Women's Studies, University of Lancaster.

Claudia Casta±eda Lecturer in Women's Studies, University of Lancaster.

Anne-Marie Fortier Lecturer in Sociology, University of Lancaster.

Mimi Sheller Lecturer in Sociology, University of Lancaster.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Notes on Contributors	xi
Introduction: Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration
Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castañeda, Anne-Marie Fortier, Mimi Sheller	1	(22)
Part I Bodies at Home and Away
1 I Still Call Australia Home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Postcolonizing Society
Aileen Moreton-Robinson	23	(18)
2 The Home of Language: A Pedagogy of the Stammer
Sneja Gunew	41	(18)
3 'Dis-Orientalisms': Displaced Bodies/Embodied Displacements in Contemporary Palestinian Art
Gannit Ankori	59	(32)
4 Taking (a) Place: Female Embodiment and the Re-grounding of Community
Irene Gedalof	91	(24)
Part II Family Ties
5 Making Home: Queer Migrations and Motions of Attachment
Anne-Marie Fortier	115	(22)
6 Nostalgia, Desire, Diaspora: South Asian Sexualities in Motion
Gayatri Gopinath	137	(20)
7 Global Modernities and the Gendered Epic of the 'Irish Empire'
Breda Gray	157	(22)
8 'They're Family!': Cultural Geographies of Relatedness in Popular Genealogy
Catherine Nash	179	(28)
Part III Trans/nations and Border Crossings
9 Transporting the Subject: Technologies of Mobility and Location in an Era of Globalization
Garen Kaplan	207	(18)
10 Technological Frontiers and the Politics of Mobility in the European Union
Ginette Verstraete	225	(26)
11 The Difference Borders Make: (Il)legality, Migration and Trafficking in Italy among Eastern European Women in Prostitution
Rotvita Andrijasevic	251	(22)
12 Creolization in Discourses of Global Culture
Mimi Sheller	273	(22)
Index	295