HOMInG Working paper no. 1/2017 PAOLO BOCCAGNI “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing. Towards a ‘positive deconstruction’ of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home” The home holds an inclusive and supportive potential for vulnerable people which is both critical and under-explored. In order to advance research into it, this … Leggi tutto Paolo Boccagni: “Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing”
At the London annual conference of the Home Renaissance Foundation - A Home: a Place of Growth, Care and Wellbeing - Paolo Boccagni will present a paper on Saving home from the pitfalls of the home, through homing: Towards a “positive deconstruction” of the social meanings, functions and moralities of home (London, the Royal Society … Leggi tutto HOMInG @ HRF 2017
On November 9-10 HOMInG will host social anthropologist Pnina Werbner, a leading scholar of migration and diasporas. On Thursday November 9 at 4pm, Dpt. of Sociology, prof. Werbner will give a public seminar on The Illusion of Simultaneity: When Home loses its ‘Homeliness’ (see the abstract below). On the following day, November 10 at 11am, Pnina will … Leggi tutto Two HOMInG seminars with Pnina Werbner (November 9-10)
Homing Interview #7: Daniel Miller Conducted by Sara Bonfanti on 16th Oct. 2017 "If your situation is more fragile, if you have difficulties or lack of stability, then, I believe you need a much more fixed concept of home that provides you with that sense of solidity; and home may represent many things that … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #7: Daniel Miller
Homing Interview #6: Jan Willem Duyvendak Conducted by Alejandro Miranda on 13 September 2017 "Home became important in my scholarly work because in the field that was popping up dominantly and I started to think ‘who is researching emotions’? And emotions in sociology still are somewhat, I would say… it’s developing very quickly but … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #6: Jan Willem Duyvendak
Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher Conducted by Sara Bonfanti, on Sept. 12th 2017 "From the perspective of social and cultural geography, home is a set of relationships and everyday practices with spatial and temporal dimensions. Participants in my work most often describe it as a space of comfort and security, whether that is a physical home of … Leggi tutto Homing Interview #5: Melissa Butcher
Extended Program (pdf) RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION QUESTIONS,METHODS, PROSPECTS An international workshop within the ERC HOMInG Project ERC StG no 678456 (2016-21), http://homing.soc.unitn.it, twitter.com/erchoming University of Trento, Dpt. Sociology 5–6 June, 2017
International Workshop on RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: QUESTIONS, METHODS, PROSPECTS An International workshop within the ERC HOMInG project 5-6 June, 2017 Department of Sociology and Social Research via Verdi 26, Trento Definitive program (pdf) Online registration open until June 6: http://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociologia/21185/erc-homing-project Photo: "Sleeping area for refugees and refugees' clothes is drying of on the rope in the temporary … Leggi tutto RESEARCHING HOME AND MIGRATION: FINAL PROGRAMME
Irene Cieraad, a well-know anthropologist of domestic space and material culture based at TU Delft, gave the third HOMInG seminar of 2017. Her talk traces anthropological approaches on the study of domestic environments, as well as the historical development of home in Western culture. In examining multiple conceptualisations of home, Cieraad foregrounds the significance of … Leggi tutto Irene Cieraad: Anthropological perspectives of home (VIDEO)
The second 2017 seminar of HOMInG, with Dr. Adriano Cancellieri (IUAV, Venice), will provide an original account on the construction of people's sense of home. The seminar, in Italian, will take place at the Dpt. of Sociology in Trento next March 21 at 11am. Giuseppe Sciortino and Andrea Mubi Brighenti (University of Trento) will be the main discussants. See … Leggi tutto “I feel at home here”: a seminar with Adriano Cancellieri
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)
Researching home and migration: questions, methods, prospects An international workshop at the University of Trento, 5-6 June, 2017 Home, as a social setting, experience, or category, has raised increasing attention in a number of research domains, including migration and its consequences in and across societies. While several case studies have been done around this topic, … Leggi tutto Researching home and migration: questions, methods, prospects. An international workshop
Migration and the Search for Home Mapping Domestic Space in Migrants’ Everyday Lives Authors: Boccagni, Paolo Home is usually perceived as what placidly lies in the background of everyday life. Migrants’ experience tells a different story. What happens to home, once someone moves far away from its “natural” bases and searches for new ones under … Leggi tutto #NewBook Migration and the Search for Home
Two seminars with Elinor Ochs (UCLA) on the study of home and family life The kick-off seminars of HOMInG (December 13-14) will be with US anthropologist Elinor Ochs (UCLA). Prof. Ochs will present the substantive findings and the methodological side of a pioneering study on family life, conducted in the homes of LA families by … Leggi tutto Two seminars with Elinor Ochs (UCLA) on the study of home and family life
HOMInG: THE HOME-MIGRATION NEXUS 