1st Edition

Emotions and Human Mobility Ethnographies of Movement

Edited By Maruška Svašek Copyright 2012
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides insights into the emotional dimensions of human mobility. Drawing on findings and theoretical discussions in anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics, migration studies, human geography and political science, the authors offer interdisciplinary perspectives on a highly topical debate, asking how 'emotions' can be conceptualised as a tool to explore... Read more

1. Emotions and Human Mobility: Key Concerns Maruška Svašek

2. ‘These People Could Be Anyone’: Fear, Contempt (and Empathy) in a British Immigration Removal Centre Alexandra Hall

3. ‘Unkind Cuts’: Health Policy and Practice versus the Health and Emotional Well-Being of Asylum-Seekers and Refugees in Ireland Katy Radford

4. Sensuous Multiculturalism: Emotional Landscapes of Interethnic Living in Australian Suburbia Amanda Wise

5. Gossiping in the Polish Club: An emotional coexistence of ‘old’ and ‘new’ migrants Aleksandra Galasińska

6. Emotional Ambiguity: Japanese Migrant Women in Mixed Families and their Life Transition Naoko Maehara

7. The Hindi Film’s Romance and Tibetan Notions of Harmony: Emotional Attachments and Personal Identity in the Tibetan Diaspora in India Timm Lau

8. The Politics of Hope and Disappointment: Ambivalence in the Post-1989 Homeland-Related Discourse Among Hungarians in Australia Petra Andit

9. Emotions, Emotives and Political Negotiations: Transforming Relationships in the Bohemian-Bavarian Border Area Maruška Svašek

Biography

Maruška Svašek is Senior Lecturer at the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast, and co-director of the Cultural Dynamics and Emotions Network (CDEN). Her research interests include emotions, migration, material culture and ageing. Recent publications include Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Productions and Emotions (2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007), and Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006).