The ninth and last life story in Finding home in Europe, a HOMInG book edited by L.E. Pérez Murcia and S. Bonfanti (Berghahn, 2023), is about "Paola: Performing Memory and Reproducing Food Cultures", by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia. The author explores the intimate connections between food, mobility and home. Based on the life story of Paola, an Ecuadorian woman living in Manchester, Pérez … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE_9: ‘PERFORMING MEMORY AND REPRODUCING FOOD CULTURES’
Former homingers Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti have just published, with Berghahn, Finding home in Europe: chronicles of global migrants. This is an edited collection of life stories co-produced along the life course of HOMInG with immigrant people coming from South America, India and the Horn of Africa. Bringing together their voices, Finding Home in Europe critically engages with how home … Leggi tutto FINDING HOME IN EUROPE: CHRONICLES OF GLOBAL MIGRANTS (PEREZ-MURCIA & BONFANTI, EDS., 2023)
HOMInG, as a formally ERC-funded project, has been over for some months by now. While the project's former researchers will keep on publishing relevant materials for the next couple of years, it is worth taking stock of HOMInG's key findings. Across the project publications, and beyond, there are at least seven insights that speak to … Leggi tutto AFTER ‘HOMING’: SEVEN INSIGHTS ON HOME AND MIGRATION
'CALIBRATING HOME, HOSPITALITY AND RECIPROCITY IN MIGRATION' (HARNEY & BOCCAGNI, 'ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY', 2022) Nicholas Harney (UWO) and Paolo Boccagni have recently published an open-access article in Anthropological Theory. The article revisits the anthropological debate on home and hospitality by advancing a notion of 'calibrated reciprocity', based on both authors' fieldwork. See the full citation and abstract below. Harney, N. D., & Boccagni, P. … Leggi tutto ‘CALIBRATING HOME, HOSPITALITY AND RECIPROCITY IN MIGRATION’ (HARNEY & BOCCAGNI, ‘ANTHROPOLOGICAL THEORY’, 2022)
On August 6, Paolo Boccagni and Maggie Kusenbach will chair an invited session on Seeking Common Ground: Displacement, Home, and Belonging at the Annual meeting of the American Sociological Association - ASA (Los Angeles, 5-9 August). The broader conference theme, chosen by ASA's President Cecilia Menjivar (see her homing interview here!), is Bureaucracies of Displacement. 1125 - Seeking Common Ground: Displacement, Home, and Belonging Sat, August 6, 8:00 … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ASA 2022: ‘SEEKING COMMON GROUND: DISPLACEMENT, HOME, AND BELONGING’
HOMING INTERVIEW #60: RAHUL RAO "At the end of the day, home is a boundary making project. And so we always have to ask: where is the boundary drawn, and what is the consequence of drawing the boundary somewhere, in space as well as in time? What happens to the people, animals and objects outside … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #60: RAHUL RAO
HOMING INTERVIEW #59: LES BACK "The idea of home makes us see our lives moving through time both looking back and dreaming forward... thinking about home makes us reflect on how we are formed by the place we grew up as children. The idea of home can be prospective and also about the life that … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #59: LES BACK
Paolo Boccagni will give a keynote next 5 May at the 'Haunted by homes' Symposium, convened by Amina El Halawani at ICI Berlin - Institute for Cultural Inquiry. More details below Paolo Boccagni AS IF IT WERE HOME: Exploring Home as a Metaphor to Approach Social Reality This presentation invites looking at home as a metaphor to approach social reality … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘HAUNTED BY HOMES’: A SYMPOSIUM AT THE INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL INQUIRY IN BERLIN (5-6 MAY)
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni has just published in Mobilities an open access article that revisits and advances further the project's theoretical approach, after five years of fieldwork.Homing: a category for research on space appropriation and ‘home-oriented’ mobilities https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2046977 Abstract This article is a conceptual invitation to homing, to revisit the everyday social experience of home as a situated manifestation of … Leggi tutto HOMING: A CATEGORY FOR RESEARCH ON SPACE APPROPRIATION AND HOME-ORIENTED MOBILITIES (P. BOCCAGNI, ‘MOBILITIES’, 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)
https://youtu.be/e7VkNujPFGY On HOMInG's seminar 58_21, last September, Prof. Robin Cohen (University of Oxford) gave an online presentation out of his lifelong experience in diaspora studies, by revisiting the tension between home and homeland. "We need to resist" the analytical and political conflation of "home and homeland", as Robin points out, among several other illuminating reflections.
Is there a place migrants would call home? What does it look like, why does it matter, and how does it change over time? Paolo Boccagni, Bernardo Armanni and Cristiano Santinello have just published a research article on 'A place migrants would call home: open-ended constructions and social determinants over time among Ecuadorians in three European cities'. The article, available … Leggi tutto A PLACE MIGRANTS WOULD CALL HOME (BOCCAGNI, ARMANNI, SANTINELLO – ‘COMPARATIVE MIGRATION STUDIES’, 2021)
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation at Coventry University's virtual symposium on "House, home and the domestic" next 22 October. Paolo's presentation, 'As if it were Home: On the promise of home as a metaphor of and into social reality', will be in Panel 2 (11.45-12.45 GMT). See more info below. House, Home and the Domestic … Leggi tutto HOMING @ ‘HOUSE, HOME AND THE DOMESTIC SYMPOSIUM’ (COVENTRY UNIVERSITY, ONLINE, 22 OCTOBER)
Next HOMInG's seminar (58_21), on 22 September at 12pm (CET), will be with Prof. Robin Cohen (University of Oxford). Robin, a world-leading diaspora scholar who has recently "gifted" HOMInG a beautiful paper on "My lost Lithuanian home", will give an online talk on The Changing Idea of Homeland and Home in Diaspora Studies. See the abstract below.Registration: bernardo.armanni@unitn.it The Changing Idea … Leggi tutto ROBIN COHEN: THE CHANGING IDEA OF HOMELAND AND HOME IN DIASPORA STUDIES (SEMINAR, 22 SEPTEMBER, 12 CET)
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 