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Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement)
Maruska Svasek
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Description for Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement)
Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how "emotions" can be theorized and serve as a useful analytical tool for understanding.. Editor(s): Svasek, Maruska. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Num Pages: 300 pages, 45 ills and tables. BIC Classification: ABA; JFCD; JFFN; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 526. Transnationalism, Cultural Productions and Emotions. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. 300 pages, 45 ills and tables. Editor(s): Svasek, Maruska. Most theories of material culture, transnationalism, and globalization have failed to incorporate a focus on emotions even though an increasing number of scholars in recent years have explored emotion-dense processes. This book fills the gap and examines how "emotions" can be theorized and serve as a useful analytical tool for understanding. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: ABA; JFCD; JFFN; JHM. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 20. Weight: 526.
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 ... Read more
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Publication date
2012
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement
Number of Pages
296
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857453235
SKU
V9780857453235
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99-15
About Maruska Svasek
Maruška Svašek is Professor of Anthropology 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).
Reviews for Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Transnationalism, Cultural Production and Emotions (Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement)
“The editor has assembled a welcoming rage of case studies that go beyond the European locale to include Africa, North America, Asia and the Caribbean. The book spans an unexpected scope of fine-grained ethnographies that put the diasporic, social and emotional agency of material culture at the centre of analysis.” • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale