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)
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BARBARA BERTOLANI: EXPLORING THE SACRALIZATION OF MIGRANT HOMES (VIDEO)
On HOMInG's seminar 53/21, last May, Barbara Bertolani gave a presentation out of her fieldwork within the domestic space of her Sikh informants in Italy. This enabled her to reveal how the home is re-adapted for religious purposes, and what difference this makes. On this, Barbara has then written an article (co-authored with Paolo Boccagni) which is … Leggi tutto BARBARA BERTOLANI: EXPLORING THE SACRALIZATION OF MIGRANT HOMES (VIDEO)
HOMING SEMINAR (MAY 6, 10 CET): Exploring the sacralization of migrant homes: religious rituals, objects and spaces as ways of home-making (BY BARBARA BERTOLANI)
HOMInG's seminar 53_21 will be held on May 6th, at 10am CET, by Barbara Bertolani. Can the everyday lived religious experience in migrants’ homes be considered as something that allows for a social appropriation and construction of domestic space by its inhabitants? In this HOMInG seminar Barbara Bertolani will explore the ritualization of migrants’ dwellings … Leggi tutto HOMING SEMINAR (MAY 6, 10 CET): Exploring the sacralization of migrant homes: religious rituals, objects and spaces as ways of home-making (BY BARBARA BERTOLANI)
HOMING INTERVIEW #46: JASON HART
HOMInG Interview with Jason Hart Conducted by Barbara Bertolani and Daniela Giudici December 2019 [revised: February 2020] "I don’t want to be essentialist and say that it is human nature to make your space better in most of the circumstances, but certainly what I saw in the Middle East does suggest that people are driven … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #46: JASON HART
Barbara Bertolani: “Towards a way of researching into migrants’ houses: empty rooms, objects and images as substitutes for the absent ones”
Towards a way of researching into migrants' houses: empty rooms, objects and images as substitutes for the absent ones Barbara Bertolani (ERC HOMInG – UniTrento) Last August I went to Punjab, India, in the district of Ropar, to conduct my fieldwork for about one month. I returned to Punjab after seven years. The first … Leggi tutto Barbara Bertolani: “Towards a way of researching into migrants’ houses: empty rooms, objects and images as substitutes for the absent ones”
NEW HOMINGER: BARBARA BERTOLANI
As of July 2019, Dr. Barbara Bertolani, a sociologist, has joined the HOMInG research team. Barbara will mainly work with Indian migrants, both in Europe and in their country of origin. See her short bio below. Barbara Bertolani is a sociologist with a BA in Political Sciences from Bologna University and a PhD in Sociology … Leggi tutto NEW HOMINGER: BARBARA BERTOLANI