Being-Here - Placemaking in a World of Movement

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people's everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement, and moves anthropological theory towards a new understanding of the crucial existential links between Sein (Being) and Da (Here).

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Annika Lems is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She completed her PhD at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia in 2013. Her work is influenced by existential and phenomenological approaches in anthropology and philosophy, and her research focuses on the themes of mobility and immobility, place and displacement, visual and narrative storytelling, and memory and temporality.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Annika Lems
• Verlag: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781800734401
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-440-1
• Seiten: 252
• Serien: EASA Series; Easa
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Victoria, Melbourne, Somalia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Anthropology (General); Mobility Studies