HOMInG INTERVIEW with KARSTEN PAERREGAARD (University of Gothenburg)Conducted by Sara Bonfanti "If you conduct long-term ethnography with migrant families, you know the risk of romanticising the idea of home. We should be careful, because it’s not only a risk which comes from our part in the ethnographic tale, but also in many migrants’ own life … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #44: KARSTEN PAERREGAARD
HOMInG interview with Jonathan Darling Durham University conducted by Enrico Fravega February 2020 "Homemaking and temporality are fundamentally connected. The process of homemaking involves a significant amount of investment, investing into a place in terms of thinking about a set of aspirations and behaviours. Thinking home is also about, not just relational connections to other … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #43: JONATHAN DARLING
Homing interview with Hazel Easthope (University of New South Wales – Sydney) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni Uppsala, June 2018 "Home is about the relationships that people have with places, not necessarily understood as locations or spaces but as relevant nodes in networks... home is a particularly important kind of node, where lots of things come together … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #41: HAZEL EASTHOPE
HOMInG interview with Rachael Kiddey (University of Oxford) Conducted by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, October 2019 "There is much to be learned by studying the materiality of forced displacement, partly because forced migration and lived experiences of displacement are so often conceived in purely dematerialised terms. [...] It is my contention that emergency shelter for displaced … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #39: RACHAEL KIDDEY
HOMInG interview with Stijn Oosterlynck (University of Antwerp) Conducted by Milena Belloni, October 2019 "I don’t think that homing should be equated to the fact that people like the place where they stay. We often see that people live in substandard places, but are still expressing attachment to it. It is cognitive dissonance. If you … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #38: STIJN OOSTERLYNCK
HOMInG INTERVIEW #37: KEITH JACOBS HOMInG interview with Keith Jacobs (University of Tasmania) Conducted with Paolo Boccagni 7th and 13th November 2019 "For people in very precarious housing - homeless people, refugees, asylum seekers - the symbolic features of the home may actually be more pronounced when compared to the experiences of many people who are happily … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #37: KEITH JACOBS
HOMInG interview with Kim Dovey (University of Melbourne) conducted by Paolo Boccagni November 2019 "I live in Australia where the original inhabitants have 60,000 years of learning how to respect and love a particularly fragile place – that needs to be respected for more than just the emotional connection. As an ordered relation to a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW # 36: KIM DOVEY
HOMInG interview with Maja Povrzanović Frykman (Malmö University) Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier November 2019 "Military violence led people to re-discover the place of their daily life in conditions of thorough disruption of normality as they knew it. What can you do if your town is under siege and your home is turned into a place of fear and destruction? … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #35: MAJA POVRZANOVIĆ FRYKMAN
HOMInG interview with Loretta Baldassar (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Perth in August 2019 "Home is a very different place depending on who’s left there. The kinning of people is very much tied to the kinning of place. Once your parents die, unless you have very close … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #33: LORETTA BALDASSAR
HOMInG INTERVIEW with MARTA BIVAND ERDAL Research Professor at PRIO – Peace Research Institute Oslo Conducted by Sara Bonfanti In Malmo, at the IMISCOE Conference, on Fri. 28th June 2019 "I am a bit critical of the saying that goes “home is where the heart is”, which I find simplistic, at least if it is not … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #32: MARTA BIVAND ERDAL
HOMInG interview with Margarethe Kusenbach (University of South Florida) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni October 2019 "All social relationships happen somewhere, even if located in virtual space. The meaning of places for people is often embedded in past, future or imagined social relationships with others, whether these others are people or pets or abstract others such as god … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #31: MARGARETHE KUSENBACH
HOMInG interview with Gordon Mathews (Chinese University of Honk Kong) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni Trento, September 2019 "Home is an ideal that is overwhelmingly positive for almost everybody. In reality it often does not fit that. There are hundreds of millions of people, or probably billions of people, for whom the actual home they feel is lacking – whether … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #30: GORDON MATHEWS
HOMInG interview with Helen Taylor conducted by Paolo Boccagni Trento, November 2018 "People have unequal access to the ability to define what their home will be. While some have the privilege to move, and the economic and social capital to make decisions on what home will be like for them, others have limited capacity for all sorts of reasons. Refugees don’t … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #29: HELEN TAYLOR
HOMInG INTERVIEW #28: PETER KELLETT Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, Aurora Massa, Alejandro Miranda, and Ilka Vari-Lavoisier on 10 January 2018 "Those of us studying informal settlements are in a privileged position to go beyond examining the use of space and processes of inhabitation, to also engage in the processes of creating, defining and building spaces. … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #28: PETER KELLETT
