Movement and connectivity configurations of belonging / edited by Jan Ketil Simonsen, Kjersti Larsen, Ada I. Engebrigtsen.
| Other author | Simonsen, Jan Ketil. |
| Other author | Larsen, Kjersti. |
| Other author | Engebrigtsen, Ada I. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Peter Lang, [2018] |
| Description | vi, 228 pages ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of mobility, for anthropological thought and theorization. The book scrutinizes mobility through long-term ethnographies that encompass life histories of individual persons, cyclical household developments, and the evolution of communities and networks. It shows how the social and spatial complexity of mobility increases with time and how socio-political and economic changes affect values, ideas, and practices in local life-worlds. The case studies examines mobility from below and as processes constitutive of society and identity; processes through which mobility is perceived and experienced as part of life. How do people see their own local life-world and its (un)connectedness to other societies? To what extent can a mobility approach advance our understanding of the complex relationship between migratory practices, experiences of belonging, and the kinds of movement and connectivity that make and re-make people as well as their societies? Movement and Connectivity: Configurations of Belonging re-questions and re-thinks relationships between space, time, and livelihoods and explores how differently motivated geographical movements may be perceived and lived as part of wider social complexities. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Movement and connectivity. Oxford : Peter Lang AG, [2018] 9781787075511 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017945170 |
| ISBN | 9781787075504 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |