HOMING @ REROOT – MALMO UNIVERSITY: TEMPORALIZING INFRASTRUCTURES (MARCH 31, 2.30 CET)

Paolo Boccagni will give a hybrid lecture at Malmo University, as a part of the ReROOT project, next 31 March at 2.30 CET. The lecture is on Temporalizing infrastructures: How time and temporalities shape the encounters between asylum seekers and multiple infrastructuring More info and details for registration Temporalizing infrastructures: How time and temporalities shape the encounters between asylum seekers … Leggi tutto HOMING @ REROOT – MALMO UNIVERSITY: TEMPORALIZING INFRASTRUCTURES (MARCH 31, 2.30 CET)

HOMING @ ‘CREATIVE HOMEMAKING: VISUALISING HOME IN TIMES OF CRISIS’ (UNIVERSITY OF DERBY, 23 MARCH, ONLINE)

Paolo Boccagni and Alberto Brodesco will give a presentation at the online symposium "Creative homemaking: visualising home in times of crisis" convened by Dr. Maria Photiou at the University of Derby on 23 March. Their presentation will be on '(Re)producing home in "home movies": A comparative exploration across stories of family and migration' See the … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘CREATIVE HOMEMAKING: VISUALISING HOME IN TIMES OF CRISIS’ (UNIVERSITY OF DERBY, 23 MARCH, ONLINE)

‘THE MOBILE AND THE IMMOBILE’: TRENTO SUMMER SCHOOL IN ETHNOGRAPHY 2022 (5-8 SEPTEMBER)

Applications are now open for the 2022 edition of the Trento Summer School in Ethnography, The Mobile and the Immobile. The school will take place, in presence, on 5-8 September. The guest speakers will be Les Roberts, Henrik Vigh and Inka Stock. All of them will participate in the lecture and seminar sessions of the School, along with the 2022 convenors, Paolo Boccagni and Andrea … Leggi tutto ‘THE MOBILE AND THE IMMOBILE’: TRENTO SUMMER SCHOOL IN ETHNOGRAPHY 2022 (5-8 SEPTEMBER)

‘STAYHOME’ AS A YOUTUBE PERFORMANCE: REPRESENTING AND RESHAPING DOMESTIC SPACE UNDER THE 2020 COVID LOCKDOWN IN ITALY (BOCCAGNI, BRODESCO, LA BRUNA, ‘EUROPEAN SOCIETIES’, 2022)

What does home mean, and how does it change, once 'staying home' becomes an unprecedented legal obligation? How is the home represented online, as a result? In a new article, just out in European Societies, Boccagni, Brodesco and La Bruna offer an original understanding of the ways in which the home is presented, understood and modified under the … Leggi tutto ‘STAYHOME’ AS A YOUTUBE PERFORMANCE: REPRESENTING AND RESHAPING DOMESTIC SPACE UNDER THE 2020 COVID LOCKDOWN IN ITALY (BOCCAGNI, BRODESCO, LA BRUNA, ‘EUROPEAN SOCIETIES’, 2022)

VULNERABLE HOMES ON THE MOVE (BONFANTI & MASSA, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

Former homingers Sara Bonfanti and Aurora Massa have just edited, together with S. Chen, a theme section of Focaal, a leading journal of "global and historical anthropology". The section is OA, including the authors' co-authored introduction, Vulnerable homes on the move. See the abstract of the Introduction below.Abstract In a world of rampant inequality, when millions seek out better futures elsewhere, this introduction situates … Leggi tutto VULNERABLE HOMES ON THE MOVE (BONFANTI & MASSA, ‘FOCAAL’, 2022)

‘WHOSE HOMES? APPROACHING THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF “REMITTANCE HOUSES” FROM WITHIN’ (BOCCAGNI & ECHEVERRIA, HOMING WP 14_22)

'Whose home' is a remittance house? What does it mean, and what difference does it make, to do research inside it? In a new HOMInG working paper, Paolo Boccagni and Gabriel Echeverria revisit the lived experience of migrant houses in the countries of origin, along multiple configurations, drawing on their fieldwork as ethnographers and guests … Leggi tutto ‘WHOSE HOMES? APPROACHING THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF “REMITTANCE HOUSES” FROM WITHIN’ (BOCCAGNI & ECHEVERRIA, HOMING WP 14_22)

‘DOMESTIC RELIGION AND THE MIGRANT HOME: THE PRIVATE, THE DIASPORIC AND THE PUBLIC IN THE SACRALIZATION OF SIKH DWELLINGS IN ITALY’ (BERTOLANI & BOCCAGNI, ETHNICITIES, 2022)

How does religion change the (migrant) home, and how is home itself (re)built through religious practices? Barbara Bertolani and Paolo Boccagni have just published a paper on the lived experience of religion and domestic sacralization in the dwellings of Sikh migrants in Italy, at the intersection between private, public and diasporic space. The article is available online first in Ethnicities. Bertolani B, Boccagni … Leggi tutto ‘DOMESTIC RELIGION AND THE MIGRANT HOME: THE PRIVATE, THE DIASPORIC AND THE PUBLIC IN THE SACRALIZATION OF SIKH DWELLINGS IN ITALY’ (BERTOLANI & BOCCAGNI, ETHNICITIES, 2022)

HOMING @ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: ALEJANDRO MIRANDA-NIETO, ‘SHARED FLATS IN MADRID: SOCIAL ANCHORING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIGRANTS’ SENSE OF HOME’

Former 'hominger' Alejandro Miranda-Nieto, now at Oslo Metropolitan University, will give an online presentation based on his past HOMInG fieldwork at University College Dublin, next February 17. The title of his presentation is Shared flats in Madrid: Social anchoring and the development of migrants' sense of home.  17th February 2022 13:00-14:00 | Zoom event (register here) See the abstract … Leggi tutto HOMING @ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN: ALEJANDRO MIRANDA-NIETO, ‘SHARED FLATS IN MADRID: SOCIAL ANCHORING AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MIGRANTS’ SENSE OF HOME’

THINKING HOME ON THE MOVE: FROM THE BOOK TO A CONVERSATION WITH C. BRUN, J.W. DUYVENDAK, M. LANCIONE (VIDEO)

Last October we invited a few colleagues to engage in a collective reflection about home, displacement and migration, starting from our collective book Thinking home on the move (Emerald, 2020). Lots of food for thought out of the conversation between Cathrine Brun, Jan Willem Duyvendak and Michele Lancione, along with HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni, Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Milena Belloni. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ShfoQZqh8sE

P. BOCCAGNI: ‘TRANSNATIONALISM AND HOMEMAKING’ (IN ‘HANDBOOK ON TRANSNATIONALISM’, 2022)

Paolo Boccagni has just contributed, with a chapter on transnationalism and homemaking, to the newly published Edward Elgar Handbook on transnationalism, edited by Brenda Yeoh and Francis Collins. More info here.   See the abstract of Paolo's chapter below. Paolo Boccagni, Transnationalism and homemaking. In: B. Yeoh, F. Collins (eds.), Handbook on transnationalism, Edward Elgar, 2022. This chapter provides a conceptual overview … Leggi tutto P. BOCCAGNI: ‘TRANSNATIONALISM AND HOMEMAKING’ (IN ‘HANDBOOK ON TRANSNATIONALISM’, 2022)

P. BOCCAGNI: AT HOME IN THE CENTRE? SPATIAL APPROPRIATION AND HORIZONS OF HOMEMAKING IN RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS (IN ‘MAKING HOME[S] IN DISPLACEMENT’, 2022)

Paolo Boccagni has written an overview and conceptual paper on homemaking in refugee centres, within a newly published and interdisciplinary study of homemaking and displacement. Making Home(s) in Displacement: Critical Reflections on a Spatial Practice, edited by Luce Beeckmans, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh and Hilde Heynen, is an open-access book published by Leuven University Press (2022). See Paolo's chapter here.Quote: Boccagni … Leggi tutto P. BOCCAGNI: AT HOME IN THE CENTRE? SPATIAL APPROPRIATION AND HORIZONS OF HOMEMAKING IN RECEPTION FACILITIES FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS (IN ‘MAKING HOME[S] IN DISPLACEMENT’, 2022)