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
HOMInG interview with Hilde Heynen Historian and theorist of Architecture Catholic University of Leuven Interview conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Bruxelles 28 March 2019 "Modernity is about being uprooted and leaving the traditional home, but it also entails looking for a new and better home: the idea of a future Heimat, not the nostalgic heimat of … Leggi tutto HOMInG intervew #27: HILDE HEYNEN
HOMInG Interview with Ann Varley Professor of Human Geography, UCL (University College London) Conducted by Sara Bonfanti and Alejandro Miranda in Trento on 17 January 2019 "What counts as home varies from place to place: even at the most basic level of the word we use. In Mexico, for example, hogar is probably the closest, but it isn’t … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW # 26: ANN VARLEY
HOMInG interview with Peggy Levitt (Trento, 11 April 2019) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni, Sara Bonfanti and Ilka Vari-Lavoisier "Home is not just the house of the American dream. We found out that home is far more than that. Artists since the second WW have approached home as a network of relationships from the womb of mother to … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW # 25: PEGGY LEVITT
Homing interview #24: Michelle Obeid Interview with Michelle Obeid Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia at the University of Manchester, UK "Creating or recreating home is probably the most obvious and complex way of making life ‘normal’, since home seems to be the most ‘normal’ or ‘basic’ thing that humans everywhere need, regardless of what … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #24: MICHELLE OBEID
“Ethics from the underground”: An interview with Michele Lancione about home among the homeless Conducted by Milena Belloni (Trento, 25th September 2018) "Home is where everything starts. We have “the homeless” because our idea of home includes the possibility of being without home: you can be at home but you can also loose that home. … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #23: MICHELE LANCIONE
HOMInG interview with Robin Cohen Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier in Oxford, December 2018. "Without theorizing home and understanding its full complexity, diaspora is largely a vacuous concept. I find myself questioning two positions, both of which I think are simplifications. 1. Home is (only) one particular nation-state from which a diaspora was scattered and to which … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #22: ROBIN COHEN
HOMING INTERVIEW #21: IRIS LEVIN Research Fellow at the Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University, Melbourne. Conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Frankfurt, 15 December 2018. "The basic thing is that we all want to belong and feel at home. There is a similarity in the ways people construct home, even from different cultures, countries and cities, … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #21: IRIS LEVIN
HOMING INTERVIEW #20: DEIRDRE MCKAY Reader in SocialGeography and Environmental Politics at Keele University. Conducted by PaoloBoccagni in Trento, 21 June 2018 "For lower skilled and undocumented migrants it is very difficult to make anything that would resemble a home. My Filipino respondents would never describe the places they lived as home. There was not enough … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #20: DEIRDRE MCKAY
HOMING INTERVIEW #19 with Maja Korac-Sanderson Reader in Refugee and Migration Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Cass School of Education and Communities, University of East London. Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia in London in July 2018 "While I was still living in Belgrade, and at the height of nationalistic frensy in the country, I felt … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #19: MAJA KORAC-SANDERSON
HOMING INTERVIEW # 18: Anne Sigfrid Grønseth Professor in Social Anthropology at Lillehammer University College Conducted by Aurora Massa in Stockholm on 16 August 2018 "During our research, we found asylum seekers engaged in what we would call homemaking processes: they buy things they like, they often have brought small things with them – such as … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #18: Anne Sigfrid Grønseth
