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Author:   Sara Ahmed ,  Claudia Castada ,  Anne-Marie Fortier ,  Mimi Sheller
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Berg Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781859736241

ISBN 10:   1859736246
Pages:   318
Publication Date:   01 October 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

PlatesNotes on contributorsSECTION 1: BODIES AT HOME AND AWAY1.still call Australia home: Indigenous belonging and place in a postcolonising societyAileen Moreton-Robinson 2. The home of language: a pedagogy of the stammerSneja Gunew3.‘Dis-orientalisms': displaced bodies/embodied displacements in contemporary Palestinian artGannit Ankori4. Taking (a) place: female embodiment and the re-grounding of communityIrene GedalofSECTION 2: FAMILY TIES5. Making home: queer migrations and motions of attachmentAnne-Marie Fortier6. Nostalgia, desire, diaspora: South Asian sexualities in motionGayatri Gopinath7. Global modernities and the gendered epic of the ‘Irish Empire'Breda Gray8. ‘They're family!': cultural geographies of relatedness in popular genealogyCatherine NashSECTION 3: TRANS/NATIONS AND BORDER CROSSINGS9. Transporting the subject: technologies of mobility and location in an era of globalisationCaren Kaplan10. Technological frontiers and the politics of mobilityGinette Verstraete11. The Difference Borders Make: (Il)legality, Migration and Trafficking in Italy among eastern European Women in ProstitutionRutvica Andrejasevic 12. Creolization in discourses of global cultureMimi Sheller

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'An excellent collection of essays that are truly linked by a common theme of reconceptualizing notions of home and migration, and understanding these realities in relation to each other.'Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005'[the book] deserves a speical place on the shelf of any migration scholar.'Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005

'An excellent collection of essays that are truly linked by a common theme of reconceptualizing notions of home and migration, and understanding these realities in relation to each other.' Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005 '[the book] deserves a speical place on the shelf of any migration scholar.' Sarah Michelle Stohlman, University of Southern Carolina, in Focaal (45), 2005

Author Information

Sara Ahmed Lecturer in Women's Studies,University of Lancaster Claudia Castaneda Lecturer in Women's Studies, University of Lancaster Anne-Marie Fortier Lecturer in Sociology, University of Lancaster Mimi Sheller Lecturer in Sociology, University of Lancaster

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