Description:
This collection brings ethnographic insight into the ever more topical question of homemaking, exploring a diverse range of socio-political contexts worldwide (from Jewish returnees from Israel to Ukraine to young gay South Asians in London) and provoking new understandings of the material and symbolic process of making oneself "at home."
Brief description:
Tom Selwyn is Leverhulme Emeritus Professorial Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. For over a decade, he directed/co-directed research and development work for the European Commission's TEMPUS and MED-HERITAGE programs in the Mediterranean region, and presently directs a project in rural tourism development in Ethiopia for the British Council and Department for International Development.
Review Quotes:
"An important contribution to migration research, especially for understanding home and homemaking in the context of lived realities." - Natasa Rogelja, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
"One of the joys of this collection is the [range of] wonderful and innovative approaches taken by the contributors... The research methods and conceptual approaches vary considerably from chapter to chapter, making each chapter a voyage of discovery in its own right." - David Clark, independent scholar