Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity

Birgit Brauchler

ISBN 10: 1032014814 / ISBN 13: 9781032014814

Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2021, 2021

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Neuware - Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as 'traditional' or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patterns of Im/mobility, Conflict and Identity
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep 2021
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032014814
• ISBN 13: 9781032014814
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 246W x 174H x 0D millimeters 246 millimeters width by 174 millimeters height by 0 millimeters depth
• Weight: 453 grams

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Synopsis

Patterns of im/mobility, collective identity and conflict are highly entangled. The im/mobility of a social or cultural group has major impact on how identity narratives, a sense of belonging and relationships to ‘others’ are shaped, and vice versa. These dynamics are closely interlinked with mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion between groups and power structures that involve a broad variety of actors from local populations, to migrants, government institutions and other intermediaries.

Mainly looking at patterns of internal mobility such as ‘traditional’ or strategic mobilities and mobilities enforced by crisis, conflict or governmental programmes and regimes, this book aims to go beyond currently predominant issues of transnational migration. Dynamics of non/integration and belonging, caused by im/mobility, are analysed on a cultural and political level, which involves questions of representation, indigeneity/autochthony, political rights and access to land and other resources. With ethnographic case studies from Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Bangladesh, East Timor and Indonesia, this volume provides a comparative perspective on the multifold dimensions of im/mobility in contexts where changing mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion trigger or settle conflicts and social identities are constantly re/negotiated.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Social Identities.

About the Author

Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2013, Berghahn), The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), editor of Reconciling Indonesia (2009, Routledge), co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice (2010, Berghahn) and Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn) and has published widely in peer-reviewed journals.