HOMInG Seminar HS 48_21 will be held on next February 11th, at 10am CET.Convenor: Sara Bonfanti (University of Trento, ERC HOMInG)Guest Speaker: Flavia Cangià (University of Fribourg, NCCR LIVES and NCCR –On the Move), author of Liminal Moves: Travelling along Places, Meanings and Times, Berghahn, 2021. “Liminal Moves is a fascinating exploration of the entanglements … Leggi tutto HOMING WEBINAR (HS 48_21, FEBRUARY 11) – FLAVIA CANGIà: Liminal Moves: Travelling along Places, Meanings and Times
HOMInG's seminar 45_20, last November, was with Alejandro Miranda-Nieto, Aurora Massa and Sara Bonfanti, the authors of Ethnographies and mobilities in Europe: Shifting roofs (Routledge, 2020). The book presentation includes a stimulating conversation with Maja Provzanovic-Frykman and Nigel Rapport. https://www.youtube.com/embed/TiQBB9qhqmQ
HOMInG interview with Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews)Conducted by Paolo Boccagni [PB] and Sara Bonfanti [SB]November 2020 "Homing is a universal practice, not just of human animals but other animals. Homing is a continuous practice: from moment to moment I make myself at home in my body, in my thoughts, in my projects, my … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #50: NIGEL RAPPORT
HOMInG's 43_20 seminar, convened by Sara Bonfanti, was with J. Lenhard, F. Samanani, F. Kazhaei and N. Simpson, editors and contributors of Home: Ethnographic Encounters, Routledge 2020. See here the video of the book presentation, based on an in-depth conversation between homingers and the authors. https://www.youtube.com/embed/iUP5oYiKukE
HOMInG’s Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Paolo Boccagni have just published an article on transnational housing and migrants’ desires, imaginaries and practices about home ownership in the country of origin in Migration and Development. See the abstract below. More info on the underlying research and key findings, and copies of the article, available by contacting the authors! Selling … Leggi tutto SELLING A HOUSE, STAGING A DREAM: REAL ESTATE AGENCIES AND TRANSNATIONAL HOUSING BETWEEN SPAIN AND ECUADOR (PÉREZ-MURCIA & BOCCAGNI, “MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT”, 2021)
NEW PUBLICATION OUT by HOMINGER Sara Bonfanti: Tying the Turban: Gendered Religious Fashion among Sikh Diasporas This contribution undertakes an ethnographic analysis of the shifting meaning that the dastar (turban), as a gendered body marker, may represent for the Sikh diaspora in countries of resettlement. Drawing from extensive fieldwork in Italy and Britain, this chapter … Leggi tutto Sara Bonfanti: Tying the Turban: Gendered Religious Fashion among Sikh Diasporas (in “Embodying religion, gender and sexuality”, 2020)
On HOMInG's seminar 42_20, Prof. Mirjana Lozanovska (Deakin University, Melbourne) gave a special presentation of her recent book Migrant Housing: Architecture, Dwelling, Migration (Routledge, 2019). Drawing from the author's original theoretical elaboration and from her extended fieldwork experience between urban Australia and rural Macedonia, the presentation makes a powerful case for interdisciplinary research on migrant housing. See the video. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jVdzX0Y_kyA
The article considers one life story, emblematic of seeking refuge in Italy today. Shaneer, let’s name him so, is a middle-aged man, fled from Pakistan after forsaking a weapons’ Lord, routed through the Balkans and ended up drifting for years across the peninsula. Combining ethnography with conversation analysis, this piece revisits the accounts rendered by … Leggi tutto SARA BONFANTI: “A SUON DI PORTE: TRAIETTORIE ABITATIVE DI UN RICHIEDENTE ASILO PAKISTANO IN ITALIA. UN APPROCCIO BIOGRAFICO” (STUDI EMIGRAZIONE, 2020)
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni and Jan Willem Duyvendak (University of Amsterdam) have recently published a book chapter on Making home within the edited collection Pragmatic inquiry: Critical concepts for social sciences, edited by J.R. Bowen, N.Dodier, J.W. Duyvendak, A. Hardon, Routledge, 2020. See below the abstract of their chapter, and the presentation of the book. Making Home By Paolo Boccagni, Jan … Leggi tutto P. BOCCAGNI, J.W. DUYVENDAK: MAKING HOME (IN “PRAGMATIC INQUIRY – CRITICAL CONCEPT FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES”, 2020)
HOMInG's seminar 47_20, next December 10 at 10am (CET), will be with Ariel Handel (Tel Aviv University). Ariel is the author, among other recent pieces, of What's in a home? Toward a critical theory of housing/dwelling . See the abstract of his seminar presentation below. All welcome, upon registration (bernardo.armanni@unitn.it) Between Homing And Ruination: Making And Unmaking Homes In The Occupied … Leggi tutto HOMING WEBINAR (HS47_20): ARIEL HANDEL: BETWEEN HOMING AND RUINATION: MAKING AND UNMAKING HOMES IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES
Homing interview with Peer Smets Conducted by Milena Belloni (Amsterdam, November 2019) "Having some common space is great and produces opportunities for interaction, but the idea that interaction will just emerge spontaneously is not correct. Relationships need guidance, and there are so many obstacles and misunderstandings that hinder encountering each other. For instance, when a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #49: PEER SMETS
HOMInG’s Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia will present his paper “‘Living with the fear of dying without seeing one’s family again: Exploring the Ageing-Home-Migration Nexus” at the Manchester Institute for Collaborative Research on Ageing’s Webinar Series. Date: 3 December, 2-3 PM (GMT) Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEvcOuqqDoiHNHgJPK3XqTjtzS4LR3gsw-O Ageing in the context of global migrations MICRA Webinar Series What … Leggi tutto HOMING at the MICRA Series: AGEING IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL MIGRATIONS (3 DECEMBER)
Homing interview with Nathan Lauster (University of British Columbia) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni "Home is developed mostly through personal attachments, first of all between an infant and one or more adult figures. It is fundamentally a matter of moving back and forth between a very familiar, routinized and secure base, and an external environment to … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #48: NATHANAEL LAUSTER
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni, Luis E. Pérez Murcia and Milena Belloni have recently published Thinking home on the move: a conversation across disciplines (Emerald, 2020). This is the fruit of extended and original conversations between homingers and a number of leading scholars across disciplines, framed by the authors by approaching home "on the move" and "from the margins".The … Leggi tutto NEW BOOK: THINKING HOME ON THE MOVE – A CONVERSATION ACROSS DISCIPLINES
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 