Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement

Being-Here: Placemaking in a World of Movement

Annika Lems
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Author:  Annika Lems
Condition:  New
Format:  Hardback
Pages:  252
Publisher:  Berghahn Books
Year:  2018
ISBN:  9781785338496

Exploring the lifeworlds of Halima, Omar and Mohamed, three middle-aged Somalis living in Melbourne, Australia, the author discusses the interrelated meanings of emplacement and displacement as experienced in people's everyday lives. Through their experiences of displacement and placemaking, Being-Here examines the figure of the refugee as a metaphor for societal alienation and estrangement, and moves anthropological theory towards a new understanding of the crucial existential links between Sein (Being) and Da (Here).

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