"The diasporic community, in a white settler society like Australia, is supposed to be a home for its own cultural group. It is supposed to create a sense of belonging. However, for an LGBT person within that community there is tension of perhaps not belonging in that diasporic community, not belonging in the white settler … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #61: ANDREW GORMAN-MURRAY
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
Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning - and beyond The first 2017 seminar of HOMInG has been with Loretta Baldassar (UWA) on visits home - her long-standing topic of research, related to several cohorts of Italian migrants in Australia. Issues of care, distance, polymedia, co-presence and home are also touched upon. Theoretically, Loretta argues … Leggi tutto Loretta Baldassar on Visits Home as kinning – and beyond (video)
The first 2017 seminar of HOMInG will be with sociologist Loretta Baldassar (University of Western Australia). Prof. Baldassar will give a presentation based on her well-established research on "visits home" over the course of Italian migration to Australia. All welcome! HS_1/017, January 17, 3pm: Loretta Baldassar (UWA), Visits Home as kinning and consumption: pilgrimage, rite … Leggi tutto A SEMINAR ON “VISITS HOME” WITH LORETTA BALDASSAR (UWA)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 