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Uprootings/Regroundings : Questions of Home and Migration by Sara Ahmed; Claudia Castañeda; Anne-Marie Fortier; Mimi Sheller (editors) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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New forms of transnational mobility and diasporic belonging have become emblematic of a supposed 'global' condition of uprootedness. Yet much recent theorizing of our so-called 'postmodern' life emphasizes movement and fluidity without interrogating who and what is 'on the move'. This original and timely book examines the interdependence of mobility and belonging by considering how homes are formed in relationship to movement. It suggests that movement does not only happen when one leaves home, and that homes are not always fixed in a single location. Home and belonging may involve attachment and movement, fixation and loss, and the transgression and enforcement of boundaries. What is the relationship between leaving home and the imagining of home itself? And having left home, what might it mean to return? How can we re-think what it means to be grounded, or to stay put? Who moves and who stays? What interaction is there between those who stay and those who arrive and leave? Focusing on differences of race, gender, class and sexuality, the contributors reveal how the movements of bodies and communities are intrinsic to the making of homes, nations, identities and boundaries. They r

Who reads Uprootings/Regroundings : Questions of Home and Migration?

Author

Sara Ahmed; Claudia Castañeda; Anne-Marie Fortier; Mimi Sheller (editors)

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781474215909

Category

nonfiction