Homing Interview #10: Nancy Foner Conducted by Paolo Boccagni and Sara Bonfanti, on 9th May 2018 in Trento. “In truth, migrants often have romanticized views of home. These views may provide comfort in the migrant setting when they, like Jamaicans in London and New York, experience disappointments and prejudice and discrimination. But if they do actually return, they face a home … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #10: NANCY FONER
Homing Interview #9: Olivia Sheringham Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, on 12th April 2018 in Trento. “What fascinates me is to explore how people can feel at home in multiple sites. Home is a dynamic idea in itself, because it constantly calls for its opposite. To understand it, we also have to challenge what is not home: it … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #9: OLIVIA SHERINGHAM
Homing Interview #8: Pnina Werbner Conducted by Sara Bonfanti and Paolo Boccagni, on 9th and 10th November 2017 in Trento. "Home comes to us as an emotive concept, linked to our childhood, to ‘natural’ homes, motherhood, nurture and love. It promises unquestioning acceptance: ideally, we don’t have to wonder if we will be welcomed there … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #8: PNINA WERBNER
Homing Interview #7: Daniel Miller Conducted by Sara Bonfanti on 16th Oct. 2017 "If your situation is more fragile, if you have difficulties or lack of stability, then, I believe you need a much more fixed concept of home that provides you with that sense of solidity; and home may represent many things that … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #7: Daniel Miller
Homing Interview #6: Jan Willem Duyvendak Conducted by Alejandro Miranda on 13 September 2017 "Home became important in my scholarly work because in the field that was popping up dominantly and I started to think ‘who is researching emotions’? And emotions in sociology still are somewhat, I would say… it’s developing very quickly but … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #6: Jan Willem Duyvendak
Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, on Sept. 12th 2017 "From the perspective of social and cultural geography, home is a set of relationships and everyday practices with spatial and temporal dimensions. Participants in my work most often describe it as a space of comfort and security, whether that is a physical home of … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher
Homing interview #3 Interview with Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University) Conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 12 July 2017. "I am a geographer and what I do is trying to understand how the relationship between people and place changes through movement". Cathrine Brun (Oxford Brookes University). Photo credit: Therese Lee Støver. More … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #3: Cathrine Brun
Read the second Homing Interview! A dialogue with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (www.hondagneu-sotelo.org), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 24 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
Read the first Homing Interview! A dialogue with Irene Cieraad (Delft University of Technology), conducted by Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda on 10 May 2017. https://homing.soc.unitn.it/homing-interviews/
