HOMInG seminar no. 22_18 will be with Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento) next October 10 at 11am, Dpt. of Sociology, Trento. See the abstract below. All welcome! A.M. Brighenti (University of Trento) Urban thresholds and modes of domestication In this lecture, I propose to explore urban space through the notion of threshold. The latter … Leggi tutto New seminar – A.M. Brighenti: Urban thresholds and modes of domestication
HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, University of Melbourne, and Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Conducted by Sara Bonfanti on 12 Sept. 2018 - University of Trento "Occupying a space does not necessarily mean you develop a homely attachment to it. That’s the case of many migrants: some of them … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #17: GHASSAN HAGE
HOMInG interview #16: Tom Scott Smith Associate Professor of Refugee Studies and Forced Migration, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford Conducted by Ilka Vari-Lavoisier on 11 September 2018 "The things that made people’s experience, or daily life, difficult when living in shelters often came down to whether or not they could control what they ate, whether or … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #16: Tom Scott-Smith
Homing Interview #15: Dirk Geldof HOMInG interview with Dirk Geldof Senior Lecturer at the University of Antwerp and at Odisee University College Brussels. Conducted by Milena Belloni in Berchem, Antwerpen on 12th July, 2018. Photos by Jorge Alcalde. Extracts from the series "Antwerp... in the year 5777" : the Jewish quarter” and "A stroke of light...the neighbourhood" … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #15: Dirk Geldof
Within the new HOASI project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (under FARE grants), two postdoctoral positions have been opened at the University of Trento. Two researchers will be recruited to work, under the supervision of Paolo Boccagni, on home and asylum seekers in Italy: the housing arrangements and careers of asylum seekers and refugees in the country, in the … Leggi tutto HOASI Call for positions: ten days left!
SOUTHALL 3.0: WHEN HOME HAPPENS… A follow up of field working in West London, June 2018 by Sara Bonfanti There comes a time when one’s fieldwork is no longer alien, and yet it has not been fully domesticated. That’s exactly when you need to let whips and brakes go… and embrace the full potential … Leggi tutto Sara Bonfanti: “SOUTHALL 3.0: WHEN HOME HAPPENS…”
‘Peru is our country but the UK is our home. Our life is here’ By Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia People migrate for several reasons. While some move in the search for safety following experiences of conflict and violence, others move in the search for economic betterment or academic opportunities. Lucho’s migratory experience challenges binary frameworks … Leggi tutto Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia: ‘Peru is our country but the UK is our home. Our life is here’
Within the new HOASI project, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education (under FARE grants), two postdoctoral positions have been opened at the University of Trento. Two researchers will be recruited to work, under the supervision of Paolo Boccagni, on home and asylum seekers in Italy: the housing arrangements and careers of asylum seekers and refugees in the country, in the … Leggi tutto New call for positions: Two postdocs in FARE_HOASI, a project on Home and Asylum Seekers in Italy
HOMInG INTERVIEW #14: OLIVER BAKEWELL HOMInG interview with Oliver Bakewell Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester conducted by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia in Manchester on 15 March 2018 "I was always aware that I was staying in places where did not belong. That experience led me to start using a simple … Leggi tutto HOMInG INTERVIEW #14: OLIVER BAKEWELL
HOMInG interview #13: Noel Salazar Conducted by Milena Belloni "Home is not an easy concept because it is pluriversal. It is used by many people, academics and non-academics alike and has a lot of different meanings. However, what is clear is that it is a relational concept. This means that it expresses a certain relation … Leggi tutto HOMInG interview #13: Noel Salazar
Homing Interview #9: Olivia Sheringham Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, on 12th April 2018 in Trento. “What fascinates me is to explore how people can feel at home in multiple sites. Home is a dynamic idea in itself, because it constantly calls for its opposite. To understand it, we also have to challenge what is not home: it … Leggi tutto HOMING INTERVIEW #9: OLIVIA SHERINGHAM
Last March 29 the Annual meeting of Europeanists (CES) in Chicago hosted a session on Domopolitics, and beyond: on the political mobilization of ‘home’ in Europe and North America. The session involved HOMInG's Paolo Boccagni and Alejandro Miranda, as well as Jan Willem Duyvendak and Fenneke Wekker (both from the University of Amsterdam). Based on original theoretical and empirical contributions, the session interrogated … Leggi tutto Home and everyday domopolitics: A. Miranda, F. Wekker, P. Boccagni and J.W. Duyvendak
999 questions (and a few answers) on dwelling: art and homemaking in Milan by Paolo Boccagni “What can art tell us about home?”, Olivia Sheringham and Richard Baxter wondered some years ago (see the wrap-up post on the "Workshop on home and art" which took place at the Geffrye Museum, London, in May 2015: www.geog.qmul.ac.uk/news/2015/items/what-can-art-tell-us-about-home.html). … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “999 questions (and a few answers) on dwelling: art and homemaking in Milan”
On the first HOMInG seminar in 2018, Peter Kellett (Newcastle University - @StudentsNCL) gives a rich and fascinating account out of his longitudinal ethnography of an informal settlement in rural Colombia. His lecture combines insights from architecture, anthropology and material culture, thereby following the life of dwellers and of their housing arrangements over time. Peter Kellett … Leggi tutto Peter Kellett @ HOMInG: Going beyond shelter. A longitudinal study of homemaking in rural Colombia
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 