Movement and Connectivity

Through a series of case studies from Southern and Eastern Africa, Oceania, and Europe, Movement and Connectivity-Configurations of Belonging explores the analytical usefulness of the concept of «mobility» for anthropological thought and theorization.

Autorentext

Jan Ketil Simonsen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the co-editor of the Norwegian Journal of Anthropology. He has done extensive field research in Zambia, and his research interests include migration, kinship, ritual studies, childhood studies, and visual anthropology. Kjersti Larsen holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Oslo, Norway. She is Professor at the Department of Ethnography, Numismatics and Classical Archaeology, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She conducts research in and has published extensively on Muslim societies in East Africa, in particular on the Swahili Coast, East Africa and in the Bayoda desert, Northern Sudan. Ada I. Engebrigtsen is a Research Professor at Norwegian Social Research, Centre for Welfare and Labour Research, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. Her main research topics are minorities, interethnic relations, mobility, Roma issues, family and children. She has published extensively on all these issues in both Norwegian and English.

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CONTENTS: Kjersti Larsen/Jan Ketil Simonsen/Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Introduction - Øivind Fuglerud: Migration from Eelam (Sri Lanka): Terrorists, Model Citizens, and the People Left Behind - Ada I. Engebrigtsen: Mobile Subjects: Power Relations and Tactics for Survival - Kjersti Larsen: «This Is Where We Belong»: Migration and Intersecting Mobilities in Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar - Jennifer Hays/Velina Ninkova: Vertical and Horizontal Mobility among the Ju|'hoansi of Namibia - Arne Aleksej Perminow: Moving Moorings, Nurturing Flows: Scales of Tongan Mobilities - Jan Ketil Simonsen: Kinship and Mobility in Urban Zambia (and Beyond) - Nigel Rapport: Epilogue: A Mobility Perspective and the Writing of Existential Power.