Moving Subjects, Moving Objects (eBook, ePUB)

Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Redaktion: Svasek, Maruska

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857453242
• Artikelnr.: 39603836

Autorenporträt

MaruSka SvaSek is Reader 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).

Inhaltsangabe

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 Grønseth
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