SOAS Research Online

A Free Database of the Latest Research by SOAS Academics and PhD Students

[skip to content]

HadžiMuhamedović, Safet and Grujić, Marija (2015) Post-Home(Land): Being and Belonging after Spatial and Temporal Alienation. In: Re-imagining Anthropological and Sociological Boundaries, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Inter-Congress, 15-17 July 2015, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand. (Unpublished)

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

What is home after home? Does the dwelling continue to dwell? How do we speak about home? How does home speak us? This panel discusses how awareness and articulations of ‘home’ might change after we come to inhabit spaces and times that are ‘not home’. We are also asking if ‘home’ is contingent on ‘not home’, as ‘I’ is performed through the ‘Other’. Moving away from the concept of ‘identity’ as something stable and unique in spatial, temporal or psychic spheres, we are especially interested in the socio-anthropological elaborations of the concepts of (un)canny, hybridity and affectivity of home, as the attempts to locate the ‘anthropos’ in the intersections of social and political realities of belonging. Our proposal builds upon Yael Navarro Yashin’s (2012) discussion of ‘ruination’ and the ‘unhomely’, as well as Stuarts Hall’s concept of ‘articulation’ (Hall and Du Gay 1996). Our focus is on both the individual and the collective localities of being in various forms of ‘governing of the self’, such as: nationalities, ethnicities, races, genders, sexualities or religions, particularly as interpreted in regards to the feeling or becoming of/at ‘home’ and ‘unhomely’, as they appear after spatial and temporal alienation, or in the resistance to the dominant narratives of belonging. We seek contributions that locate home and belonging as they appear in discursive (re)positioning, life stories, bodily movements and reflexes, materialities, dreams, silences, and dialectics arising from ‘new spaces’. We propose an analytical framework of ‘migration’ that includes a range of situations where ‘home’ may not be readily attainable and/or definable. Papers might consider, but should not necessarily be limited to, post-conflict landscapes, regimes of displacement and emplacement, transnational, transversal, and trans-gender/sexual habitations, as well as the roles of non-human agency, materiality and affect as they pertain to ‘post-home’ lives.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Items (Other)
Keywords: home, homeland, affect, anthropology, alienation, space, time
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation
H Social Sciences
Copyright Statement: ©2015 Author(s).
Date Deposited: 24 Oct 2019 10:36
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/31832

Altmetric Data

There is no Altmetric data currently associated with this item.

Statistics

Download activity - last 12 monthsShow export options
Downloads since deposit
6 month trend
0Downloads
6 month trend
137Hits
Accesses by country - last 12 monthsShow export options
Accesses by referrer - last 12 monthsShow export options

Repository staff only

Edit Item Edit Item