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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel
Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
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Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement Series

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Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateFeb 21, 2017
Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel
Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

Titles in the series (9)

  • Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

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    Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe
    Creativity in Transition: Politics and Aesthetics of Cultural Production Across the Globe

    In an era of intensifying globalization and transnational connectivity, the dynamics of cultural production and the very notion of creativity are in transition. Exploring creative practices in various settings, the book does not only call attention to the spread of modernist discourses of creativity, from the colonial era to the current obsession with ‘innovation’ in neo-liberal capitalist cultural politics, but also to the less visible practices of copying, recycling and reproduction that occur as part and parcel of creative improvization.

  • Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

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    Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions
    Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions

    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.

  • Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel

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    Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel
    Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel

    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.

  • Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

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    Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland
    Ethnographies of Movement, Sociality and Space: Place-Making in the New Northern Ireland

    Exploring the complex dynamics of twenty-first century spatial sociality, this volume provides a much-needed multi-dimensional perspective that undermines the dominant image of Northern Ireland as a conflict-ridden place. Despite touching on memories of “the Troubles” and continuing unionist-nationalist tensions, the volume refuses to consider people in the region as purely political beings, or to understand processes of placemaking solely through ethnic or national contestations and territoriality. Topics such as the significance of friendship, gender, and popular culture in spatial practices are considered, against the backdrop of the growing presence of migrants, refugees and diasporic groups.

  • From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

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    From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore
    From Storeroom to Stage: Romanian Attire and the Politics of Folklore

    Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.

  • The Cracked Art World: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

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    The Cracked Art World: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland
    The Cracked Art World: Conflict, Austerity, and Community Arts in Northern Ireland

    This book presents a nuanced view of Northern Ireland, a place at once deeply mired in its past and seeking to forge a new future for itself as a ‘post-post-conflict’ place within the context of a changing United Kingdom, a disintegrating Europe, and a globalized world. This is a Northern Ireland that is conflicted, segregated, and marginalized within modern Europe, but also hopeful and forward looking, seeking to articulate for itself a new place in the contemporary world.

  • Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

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    Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
    Sense and Essence: Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real

    Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.

  • Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

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    Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective
    Of Hoarding and Housekeeping: Material Kinship and Domestic Space in Anthropological Perspective

    Hoarding has largely been approached from a psychological and universal perspective, and decluttering from an aesthetic and ecological one, while little work has been done to think about the cultural and global economic aspects of these phenomena. Of Hoarding and Housekeeping provides an anthropological, global, and comparative angle to the understanding of hoarding and decluttering using cases from a variety of countries including US, Japan, India, Cameroon, and Argentina. Focusing on the house, with careful attention to material flows in and out, this book examines practices of accumulation, storage, decluttering, and waste as practices of kinship and the objects themselves as material kin.

  • Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

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    Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling
    Crafting Chinese Memories: The Art and Materiality of Storytelling

    Through an interdisciplinary conversation with contributors from social anthropology, religious studies, film studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and history, Crafting Chinese Memories is a novel book which addresses how works of art shape memories, and offers new ways of conceptualising storytelling, memory-making, art, and materiality. It explores the memories of artists, filmmakers, novelists, storytellers, and persons who come to terms with their own histories even as they reveal the social memories of watershed events in modern China.

Author

Alexandra Urdea

Alexandra Urdea is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. Her research interests include material culture, heritage and museum studies, and mobility studies.

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