HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Conducted by Sara Bonfanti on 12 Sept. 2018 - University of Trento "Occupying a space does not necessarily mean you develop a homely attachment to it. That’s the case of many migrants: some of them … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE
HOMInG interview #16: Tom Scott Smith Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier on 11 September 2018 "The things that made people’s experience, or daily life, difficult when living in shelters often came down to whether or not they could control what they ate, whether or … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #16: Tom Scott-Smith
Homing Interview #15: Dirk Geldof HOMInG interview with Dirk Geldof Senior Lecturer at the University of Antwerp and at Odisee University College Brussels. Conducted by Milena Belloni in Berchem, Antwerpen on 12th July, 2018. Photos by Jorge Alcalde. Extracts from the series "Antwerp... in the year 5777" : the Jewish quarter” and "A stroke of light...the neighbourhood" … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #15: Dirk Geldof
HOMInG INTERVIEW #14: OLIVER BAKEWELL HOMInG interview with Oliver Bakewell Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia in Manchester on 15 March 2018 "I was always aware that I was staying in places where did not belong. That experience led me to start using a simple … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #14: OLIVER BAKEWELL
HOMInG interview #13: Noel Salazar Conducted by Milena Belloni "Home is not an easy concept because it is pluriversal. It is used by many people, academics and non-academics alike and has a lot of different meanings. However, what is clear is that it is a relational concept. This means that it expresses a certain relation … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #13: Noel Salazar
HOMInG's interview no. 12 (in Italian) is with Antonio Tosi (Politecnico di Milano), a leading scholars in housing studies in Italy. "Unlike 'dwelling', the concept of home enables us to move beyond bricks-and-mortar. It foregrounds, as a value, our relationship with a more or less extended surrounding space. This traditionally corresponds to our neighbourdhood, and … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #12: ANTONIO TOSI
HOMING INTERVIEW #11: Janetka Platun Conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia "Feeling connected to more than one place in my own mind is why I’m interested in exploring home as a concept as an artist. The more I explore the idea of home the more confused it becomes in my mind". Read the interview!
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
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 