Travelling towards Home Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn / Nicola Frost, Tom Selwyn
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As we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, a hardening of anti-immigration sentiment, and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, questions of the nature of home and ...homemaking are increasingly critical. This collection brings ethnographic insight into the practices of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of contexts ranging from economic migrants to new Chinese industrial cities, Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine, and young gay South Asians in London. While negotiating widely varying social-political contexts, these studies suggest an unavoidably multiple understanding of home, while provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "at home."
Brick Lane and the surrounding area have historically attracted successive groups of migrants, one of the most prominent currently being those from the Sylhet region of Bangladesh. Following decades ...of economic depression and racial tension, regeneration efforts have ensured that the area is now inextricably associated with the curry restaurants that line the street. Food is the medium for Brick Lane's transformation, yet the use of food as a centerpiece for development is also ripe with ambivalence. Since the mid-1990s, local Bengali restaurateurs have held an annual Curry Festival to promote local businesses, and to help counter negative publicity. This paper examines the efforts of local restaurateurs to respond to events and to manage the Brick Lane “brand” proactively through the Curry Festival.
My Maluku Manise Nicola Frost
Travelling Towards Home,
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One of the purposes of this collection is to begin to disentangle the multiple meanings and implications of ‘home’ as a commonsense, yet under-investigated term. As other chapters also make clear, ...understandings of home are multiple, contingent, and socially and historically situated. This is especially evident, and arguably particularly important, for those at a distance from where they consider ‘home’ to be. This chapter considers the case of a small group of migrants living in Sydney, Australia, who identify with the region of Maluku in eastern Indonesia. Diverse in terms of their age, background, migration history and more, all were
We present the results of our tenth annual horizon scan. We identified 15 emerging priority topics that may have major positive or negative effects on the future conservation of global biodiversity, ...but currently have low awareness within the conservation community. We hope to increase research and policy attention on these areas, improving the capacity of the community to mitigate impacts of potentially negative issues, and maximise the benefits of issues that provide opportunities. Topics include advances in crop breeding, which may affect insects and land use; manipulations of natural water flows and weather systems on the Tibetan Plateau; release of carbon and mercury from melting polar ice and thawing permafrost; new funding schemes and regulations; and land-use changes across Indo-Malaysia.
We present the 15 topics identified in our tenth annual horizon scan for global conservation.
Scoring was carried out by a diverse group of experts using a Delphi-like process.
Scores were based on the topics’ novelty, likelihood, and potential for major impacts on biodiversity.
Emerging themes include conservation impacts of biotechnological advances in agriculture.
Other issues included climate change-induced release of carbon and mercury from polar ice.
Waiting for Elijah is an intimate portrait of time-reckoning, syncretism, and proximity in one of the world’s most polarized landscapes, the Bosnian Field of Gacko. Centered on the shared harvest ...feast of Elijah’s Day, the once eagerly awaited pinnacle of the annual cycle, the book shows how the fractured postwar landscape beckoned the return of communal life that entails such waiting. This seemingly paradoxical situation—waiting to wait—becomes a starting point for a broader discussion on the complexity of time set between cosmology, nationalism, and embodied memories of proximity.
This article follows a group of Indonesian migrant women in Sydney as they planned and ran a cookery course at a local adult education college. It shows how a focus on domestic culinary knowledge ...revealed important understandings of their lived experience. In particular, it argues that this knowledge can act as a mediator and reference point for the journey the women have made in moving to Australia, both marking and enabling this form of "travel." The shift from the private sphere of the household, to the rather more public arena of the classroom, also underlines the process of exchange (and the attendant risk and vulnerability) involved in cross-cultural hospitality.
Introduction Tom Selwyn; Nicola Frost
Travelling Towards Home,
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A decade ago, the question of homemaking within a mobile global population was an important one. Today, as we grapple with a growing refugee crisis, alongside a hardening of anti-immigration feeling ...and deepening communal segregation in many parts of the developed world, the issue of the nature of home and homemaking is critical, and is becoming daily more so. Media reports tumble over each other telling of refugees who, whilst seeking home and hospitality in Europe, drown in the sea passages between North Africa and Italy. Such news jostles with reports of a rising tide of political rhetoric about building
This article follows a group of Indonesian migrant women in Sydney as they planned and ran a cookery course at a local adult education college. It shows how a focus on domestic culinary knowledge ...revealed important understandings of their lived experience. In particular, it argues that this knowledge can act as a mediator and reference point for the journey the women have made in moving to Australia, both marking and enabling this form of 'travel?' The shift from the private sphere of the household, to the rather more public arena of the classroom, also underlines the process of exchange (and the attendant risk and vulnerability) involved in cross-cultural hospitality. Adapted from the source document.
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