On her visit to HOMInG, in November 2017, anthropologist Pnina Werbner (Keele University) gave a lecture on the prospects and limitations of migrant simultaneous engagement in two or more countries. By revisiting the work of innumerable theorists and researchers, from DuBois and Schutz to contemporary scholars of transnationalism, Werbner suggests that migration tends to separate the … Leggi tutto PNINA WERBNER @ HOMING: THE ILLUSION OF SIMULTANEITY – WHEN HOME LOSES ITS ‘HOMELINESS’
HOMInG Working paper no. 1/2017 PAOLO BOCCAGNI “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing. Towards a ‘positive deconstruction’ of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home” The home holds an inclusive and supportive potential for vulnerable people which is both critical and under-explored. In order to advance research into it, this … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing”
HOMInG' seminar 13_17, next December 12 at 3pm, will be with Giuliana Costa (Politecnico di Milano). See the abstract below. All Italian speakers welcome! Dove lo/la metto? Dalla casa d'origine al trovare-casa “Dove lo/la metto?” è una domanda con cui buona parte delle persone si deve confrontare nell’arco dell’esistenza. All’insorgere di problemi e di vuoti di … Leggi tutto Where next? Emerging care needs and the (re)construction of domestic space: a seminar with Giuliana Costa
Going vertical in an urban periphery: winding through social housing skyscrapers in Brescia by Sara Bonfanti The post recalls some of my fieldwork days in S. Polo neighborhood last autumn: meeting with a Board of Residents and paying home visits to a senior tenant in Cimabue Tower. What’s the matter with (being sent to) dwelling … Leggi tutto SARA BONFANTI: GOING VERTICAL IN AN URBAN PERIPHERY – WINDING THROUGH SOCIAL HOUSING SKYSCRAPERS IN BRESCIA
The second round of postdoctoral selections, to complete HOMInG’s research team, is now concluded. Almost forty applications were received from sixteen different countries, across all five continents. Candidates were from Italy (42%), as well as from Spain, India, Colombia, the US, and then Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, France, Greece, Brazil and Albania. … Leggi tutto HOMING IN PROGRESS (2)
Wanderlust in London: a reflection on ‘homing’, from East to West End by Sara Bonfanti Snapshot after snapshot, this long post narrates the pilot fieldwork conducted by the author in London last October. Trailing the conspicuousness of British south Asians, ethnographic reflections emotively charged approach some of the puzzles that these heterogeneous diasporas have experienced … Leggi tutto Sara Bonfanti: Wanderlust in London. A reflection on ‘homing’, from East to West End
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
At the London annual conference of the Home Renaissance Foundation - A Home: a Place of Growth, Care and Wellbeing - Paolo Boccagni will present a paper on Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing: Towards a “positive deconstruction” of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home (London, the Royal Society … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HRF 2017
HOMInG seminar no. 10, last October, was with anthropologist Daniel Miller (@DannyAnth). In his speech, Prof. Miller provides an extended and stimulating overview of migrants' home-making through his research findings, across continents, over the last decades. Ethnographic case studies of migration from Trinidad, Jamaica, the Philippines and China are used to stimulate a critical debate … Leggi tutto DANIEL MILLER @ HOMING: MIGRANTS AND HOME DECORATION, OFFLINE AND ONLINE
On November 9-10 HOMInG will host social anthropologist Pnina Werbner, a leading scholar of migration and diasporas. On Thursday November 9 at 4pm, Dpt. of Sociology, prof. Werbner will give a public seminar on The Illusion of Simultaneity: When Home loses its ‘Homeliness’ (see the abstract below). On the following day, November 10 at 11am, Pnina will … Leggi tutto Two HOMInG seminars with Pnina Werbner (November 9-10)
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
The home of HOMInG, which is currently made out of four people (one pi and three postdoc researchers), is about to grow larger. Three new post-docs will be recruited as part of a new call for positions, with deadline on November 2. These post-doctoral positions are full-time and fixed-term - one year, renewable up to … Leggi tutto New call for positions: one week left!
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
Interior Decoration - Offline and Online: a seminar with Daniel Miller Daniel Miller (UCL) is a very well-known anthropologist of material culture, consumption, domesticity and polymedia. October 16, h. 16.00 Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, via Verdi, 26 - Trento, Sala Professori Speaker: Daniel Miller Discussant: Nicholas Harney Introduction: Paolo Boccagni
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 