Tag: Belonging

Having and Belonging Homes and Museums in Israel


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English | ISBN: 1785331345 | 2016 | 233 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities―Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian Arab, and Muslim Arab―it gives a powerful account of museums’ role in state formation, proposing a new approach to collecting and categorizing particularly well-suited to societies in conflict.

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In Pursuit of Belonging Forging an Ethical Life in European-Turkish Spaces


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English | ISBN: 1789202698 | 2019 | 216 pages | PDF | 1332 KB
Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.

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Education and Belonging


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English | ISBN: 1612097111 | 2011 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Education remains as one of the most significant areas for social change to take place within any society. How different countries educate their citizens reveals a tremendous amount about their priorities and how their societies work. This book draws on a range of issues that deal with belonging and education in its widest definition, not just formal institutions such as schools and universities.

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Citizenship, Identity and Belonging in Kenya


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 0995347476 | EPUB | pages: 158 | 0.5 mb
At the turn of the twentieth century, the print media in India was highly developed and very active in the country’s liberation struggle. Hence South Asian migrants who came to Kenya were well aware of the importance of the press in advancing the anti-colonial campaign. The first Indian-owned newspaper in Kenya was the African Standard which Alibhai Mulla Jeevanjee established in 1901 in his fight for equal rights. That paper continues to serve Kenyans today as The Standard.

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Writing Home Walking, Literature and Belonging in Australia’s Red Centre


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English | ISBN: 0522871291 | 2017 | pages | EPUB | 806 KB
Writing Home explores the literary representation of Australian places by those who have walked them. In particular, it examines how Aboriginal and settler narratives of walking have shaped portrayals of Australia’s Red Centre and consequently ideas of nation and belonging.

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Borders of Belonging Experiencing History, War and Nation at a Danish Heritage Site


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English | ISBN: 0857459767 | 2014 | 212 pages | PDF | 1505 KB
In an era cross-cut with various agendas and expressions of national belonging and global awareness, "the nation" as a collective reference point and experienced entity stands at the center of complex identity struggles. This book explores how such struggles unfold in practice at a highly symbolic battlefield site in the Danish/German borderland. Comprised of an ethnography of two profoundly different institutions – a conventional museum and an experience-based heritage center – it analyses the ways in which staff and visitors interfere with, relate to, and literally "make sense" of the war heritage and its national connotations. Borders of Belonging offers a comparative, in-depth analysis of the practices and negotiations through which history is made and manifested at two houses devoted to the interpretation of one event: the decisive battle of the 1864 war in which Otto von Bismarck, on his way to uniting the new German Empire, led the Prussian army to victory over the Danish. Working through his empirical material to engage with and challenge established theoretical positions in the study of museums, modernity, and tourism, Mads Daugbjerg demonstrates that national belonging is still a key cultural concern, even as it asserts itself in novel, muted, and increasingly experiential ways.

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One Job Town Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario


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English | 2018 | ISBN: 1442610239, 1442640839 | PDF | pages: 393 | 102.6 mb
There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families.

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