Materialising Exile

Sandra Dudley has worked with and on Karenni refugees since 1996, completing her doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford in 2001. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, having previously taught at Oxford and UEA and worked at the Pitt Rivers Museum.

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Preface

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Chapter 1. Materialising Exile and Karenni Refugees: An Introduction

The Sensoriality and Materiality of Exile

Continuity with Past Times and Places

Being at Home, Being in Place

The Karenni

Materialising Exile: Refugee Studies, Material Culture Studies and Beyond



Chapter 2. In-Between: Being a Karenni Refugee

Burmese Refugees in Thailand

The Karenni Camps

Being a Refugee: Self-Perceptions

Material Forms, Bodies and Sense

Experience in Being a Refugee

Coping With Life in the Camps: Habit and Consuming Time Liminality



Chapter 3. Inside/Outside: Refugee Journeys

Journeys to and from the Camps

Cross-Border Movement and Knowledge

Forms of Knowledge and Emotional Response

Memory and Feeling in Journey Narratives

Journeying as Normal Landscape, Senses, Bodies and Things



Chapter 4. Remembering, Forgetting and Imagining the Pre-exile Past

Dress and Connections with the Past

Dïy-küw and Thoughts of Home

Moving Beyond Rupture



Chapter 5. Coping and (Re)constructing ‘Home’ in Displacement

Wider Contexts and Influences … and T-shirts

Objects, Landscapes, Bodies: Metaphors and Foils for Experience

Making Things, Making Place, Making Self

Becoming ‘At Home’ in Exile



Chapter 6. Materialising Home and Exile

Conceptions of Home

Continuity and Change

Exilic Objects and Bodies

Feeling Right With and In the World



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