Materialising Exile (eBook)

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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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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Index