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Negotiating Belongings

Name: Negotiating Belongings
Brand: Brill - Sense
SKU: 9789463005876
Price: 552.23 PLN
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Stories of Forced Migration of Dinka Women from South Sudan

Autor: Melanie Baak

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Brill - Sense

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Belonging is an issue that affects us all, but for those who have been displaced, unsettled or made...

Informacje o książce

Autor

Melanie Baak

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2016

strony

252

EAN

9789463005876

ISBN

9463005870

Enbook ID

13803944

Wydawca

Brill - Sense

Waga

537

Wymiary

156 x 234 x 18

Pełny opis

Belonging is an issue that affects us all, but for those who have been displaced, unsettled or made 'homeless' by the increased movements associated with the contemporary globalising era, belonging is under constant challenge. Migration throws into question not only the belongings of those who physically migrate, but also, particularly in a postcolonial context, the belongings of those who are indigenous to and 'settlers' in countries of migration, subsequent generations born to migrants, and those who are left behind in countries of origin. Negotiating Belongings utilises narrative, ethnographic and autoethnographic approaches to explore the negotiations for belonging for six women from Dinka communities originating in southern Sudan. It explores belonging, particularly in relation to migration, through a consideration of belonging to nation-states, ethnic groups, community, family and kin. In exploring how the journeys towards desired belongings are haunted by various social processes such as colonisation, power, 'race' and gender, the author argues that negotiating belonging is a continual movement between being and becoming. The research utilises and demands different ways of listening to and really hearing the narratives of the women as embedded within non-Western epistemologies and ontologies. Through this it develops an understanding of the relational ontology, cieng, that governs the ways in which the women exist in the world. The women's narratives alongside the author's experience within the Dinka community provide particular ways to interrogate the intersections of being and becoming on the haunted journey to belonging. The relational ontology of cieng provides an additional way of understanding belonging, becoming and being as always relational.