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Author:   Maruška Svašek (Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9780415507608

ISBN 10:   041550760
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   21 June 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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Maruska Svasek 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. Her major publications include Mixed Emotions: Anthropological Studies of Feeling (2005, with Kay Milton), Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007) and Moving Subjects, Moving Objects (forthcoming). At present, she is heading a two-year HERA-Funded project entitled 'Creativity and Innovation in a World of Movement' that partly deals with the emotional aspects of transit, object/image transition and the transformations of human subjects.

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