HOMInG interview with Kim Dovey (University of Melbourne) conducted by Paolo Boccagni November 2019 "I live in Australia where the original inhabitants have 60,000 years of learning how to respect and love a particularly fragile place – that needs to be respected for more than just the emotional connection. As an ordered relation to a … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW # 36: KIM DOVEY
Several researchers from HOMInG and HOASI will participate in the Imiscoe Spring conference to take place at IGOT, University of Lisbon, on February 6-7. In particular, Paolo Boccagni will give a presentation on “... as if it is your home”: Homemaking and the negotiation of care, privacy and control in an asylum reception facility in … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HOUSING AND MIGRATION IN UNCERTAIN TIMES – IMISCOE SPRING CONFERENCE, LISBON
On HOMInG seminar 33_19, anthropologist Gordon Mathews (Chinese University of Hong Kong) provided a rich and stimulating account of his fieldwork inside Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions - " a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong’s tourist district", which "a remarkably motley group of people call [...] home". This is the background to his celebrated … Leggi tutto Gordon Mathews: “‘Ghetto at the center of the world’, ten years after” (VIDEO)
PAOLO BOCCAGNI AND JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK: ON THE "SCALING UP" OF HOME IN MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS (HOMING WP 6_2019) This working paper investigates homemaking and home-related feelings and claims at the roots of majority-minority relations in the public urban domain. Who is entitled and legitimated to claim a public space as “home” under circumstances of deep … Leggi tutto PAOLO BOCCAGNI AND JAN WILLEM DUYVENDAK: ON THE “SCALING UP” OF HOME IN MAJORITY-MINORITY RELATIONS (HOMING WP 6_2019)
HOMInG interview with Loretta Baldassar (Anthropology and Sociology, University of Western Australia) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni in Perth in August 2019 "Home is a very different place depending on who’s left there. The kinning of people is very much tied to the kinning of place. Once your parents die, unless you have very close … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #33: LORETTA BALDASSAR
HOMInG's seminar 38_19, next November 26, will be with prof. Jason Hart, a social anthropologist from the University of Bath [https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/jason-hart/publications/]. See the abstract of Jason's presentation below. As usual, all invited! Jason Hart (University of Bath) Safe as Houses?: Shelter and Home in Displacement Camps Forced displacement is commonly conceptualised as a temporary condition: an … Leggi tutto New seminar with Jason Hart: Safe as Houses? Shelter and Home in Displacement Camps
HOMInG INTERVIEW with MARTA BIVAND ERDAL Research Professor at PRIO – Peace Research Institute Oslo Conducted by Sara Bonfanti In Malmo, at the IMISCOE Conference, on Fri. 28th June 2019 "I am a bit critical of the saying that goes “home is where the heart is”, which I find simplistic, at least if it is not … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #32: MARTA BIVAND ERDAL
HOMInG interview with Margarethe Kusenbach (University of South Florida) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni October 2019 "All social relationships happen somewhere, even if located in virtual space. The meaning of places for people is often embedded in past, future or imagined social relationships with others, whether these others are people or pets or abstract others such as god … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #31: MARGARETHE KUSENBACH
HOMInG's Sara Bonfanti, Aurora Massa and Alejandro Miranda have just published Whiffs of home. Ethnographic comparison in a collaborative research study across European cities. This three-authored original piece is part of a Special Issue of Etnografia e Ricerca Qualitativa on "Comparing what? Conceptualizing comparison in ethnographic research" (edited by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Nicholas DeMaria Harney). … Leggi tutto NEW ARTICLE: WHIFFS OF HOME – Ethnographic comparison in a collaborative research study across European cities (BY BONFANTI, MASSA, MIRANDA)
HOMInG interview with Gordon Mathews (Chinese University of Honk Kong) Conducted by Paolo Boccagni Trento, September 2019 "Home is an ideal that is overwhelmingly positive for almost everybody. In reality it often does not fit that. There are hundreds of millions of people, or probably billions of people, for whom the actual home they feel is lacking – whether … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #30: GORDON MATHEWS
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni, as 2019 Visiting Fellow at UWA's Institute of Advanced Studies, will give some lectures at the University of Western Australia, over the next few days: - Monday 26 August at 6pm: Why "home" matters the most for people on the move; - Tuesday 27 August at 1pm: Researching home and migration: theory-driven aims, method-related … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ IAS-UWA: WHY “HOME” MATTERS THE MOST FOR PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni will give an invited lecture at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, next August 14 at 4pm. See the abstract below. More info: https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/paolo-boccagni/ ABSTRACT My presentation introduces a research agenda centred on the “home-migration nexus”, as a way to renovate the theoretical, methodological and empirical bases of transnational migration studies. … Leggi tutto HOMING @ NUS – NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE: ADVANCING TRANSNATIONAL MIGRATION STUDIES THROUGH “HOME”
HOMInG is over 2.5 years old by now. Its preliminary findings can be appreciated as “progress”, relative to the preexisting research on home and migration, in at least five respects. All of them invite to further research and conversations on questions of home, especially for people away, displaced, or deprived from it. All of them will … Leggi tutto PAOLO BOCCAGNI: HOMING AT MID-WAY: 2.5 YEARS, 5 KEY POINTS
The piece casts an ethnographic portrait of London Southall, as sensed through street phenomenology. Twenty years after Baumann’s (1996) exposé of this mixed social field, dialogic chats and photographic shots concur to depict today’s diversification of an iconic British Asian scene, beating in the tempo of its daily grinds.
