Overview

In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry. It examines how ‘emotions’ can be theorized, and serves as a useful analytical tool for understanding the interrelated mobility of humans, objects and images. Ethnographically rich, and theoretically grounded case studies offer new perspectives on the relations between migration, material culture and emotions. While some chapters address the many different ways in which migrants and migrant artists express their emotions through objects and images in transnational contexts, other chapters focus on how particular works of art, everyday objects and artefacts can evoke feelings specific to particular migrant groups and communities. Case studies also analyse how artists, academics and policy makers can stimulate positive interaction between migrants and non-migrant communities.

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Author:   Maruška Svašek
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9780857453235

ISBN 10:   0857453238
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   01 May 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations, Figures, and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Affective Moves: Transit, Transition and Transformation Maruska Svasek Chapter 1. Materiality, Memories and Emotions: A View on Migration from a Street in South London Fiona Parrott Chapter 2. The Objects of Christmas: The Politics of Festive Materiality in the Lives of Polish Immigrants Kathy Burrell Chapter 3. From Shop to Chapel: Changing Emotional Efficacy of the Statue of Virgin Mary of El Rocio within the Spanish Community in Vilvoorde, Belgium Eddy Plasquy Chapter 4. Sweater Business: Commodity Exchange and the Mediation of Agency in the Tibetan Itinerant Sweater Trade in India Timm Lau Chapter 5. Moving Tamils, Moving Amulets: Creating Emotional Well-Being and Comfort Anne Sigfrid Gronseth Chapter 6. The Price of Progress: 'Dying Arts' Among the Karen of Andaman Islands Sameera Maiti Chapter 7. Artefacts as Mediators through Time and Space: The Reproduction of Roots in the Journal of Lussignani Enrico Maria Milic Chapter 8. Making Connections: Biography, Art, Affect and Politics Maggie O'Neill Chapter 9. Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist's Book Deborah Schultz Chapter 10. The Emotions and Ethnicity in the Indo-Caribbean Leon Wainwright Chapter 11. 'What You Perceive Is What You Conceive'. Evaluating Subjects and Objects through Emotions Maruska Svasek Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

Reviews

This is a timely volume that moves the study of material culture in interesting directions by providing intimate portrayals of the varied significance that objects hold in the emotional lives of migrants - [It]effectively explores the many roles of objects in the lives of migrants as repositories for memory, technologies for communication, and catalysts to symbolize new relationships and identities. * Morgan Perkins, SUNY

Author Information

Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology in the School of History and Anthropology, Queens University, Belfast. Her main research interests are emotional dynamics, migration and art and artefacts. Recent publications include Human Mobility and Emotions: Ethnographies of Movement (ed., 2012), Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production (2007)  Postsocialism: Politics and Emotions in Central and Eastern Europe (2006).

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