Oggetti Spaesati, Unhomely Belongings: Objects, Migrations and Cultural Apocalypses

Vanni Accarigi, I

Oggetti Spaesati, Unhomely Belongings: Objects, Migrations and Cultural Apocalypses

Vanni Accarigi, I

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Publisher:: University of Technology, Sydney
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cultural Studies Review, 2013, 19 (2), pp. 150 - 174
Issue Date:: 2013-01

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dc.contributor.author	Vanni Accarigi, I https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2795-8465	en_US
dc.date.issued	2013-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Cultural Studies Review, 2013, 19 (2), pp. 150 - 174	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This article analyses first person memories in relation to objects as documented in Belongings, an online exhibition curated through the NSW Migration Heritage Centre. It explores the role of objects in recreating domestic geographies in the process of migration, using the Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martinos notion of `crisis of presence as the moment when familiar objects become unfamiliar or uncanny by losing their relation with the web of domestic uses, habits, sense of belonging, and cultural memories. In this crisis, objects acquire new layers of meaning entangled in the loss and re-creation of entire life-worlds, relational universes, senses of place, `homes. Taking Belongings as its case study, this article argues that objects enable the telling and performance of displacement from one place and regrounding in another one as a continuum of affective, embodied and political experiences that question the separation between being at home and being a migrant.	en_US
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dc.title	Oggetti Spaesati, Unhomely Belongings: Objects, Migrations and Cultural Apocalypses	en_US
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Abstract:

This article analyses first person memories in relation to objects as documented in Belongings, an online exhibition curated through the NSW Migration Heritage Centre. It explores the role of objects in recreating domestic geographies in the process of migration, using the Italian anthropologist Ernesto De Martinos notion of `crisis of presence as the moment when familiar objects become unfamiliar or uncanny by losing their relation with the web of domestic uses, habits, sense of belonging, and cultural memories. In this crisis, objects acquire new layers of meaning entangled in the loss and re-creation of entire life-worlds, relational universes, senses of place, `homes. Taking Belongings as its case study, this article argues that objects enable the telling and performance of displacement from one place and regrounding in another one as a continuum of affective, embodied and political experiences that question the separation between being at home and being a migrant.

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