Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced - Softcover

Eybalin Casseus, Clara Rachel; Odongoh, Stevens Aguto; Abdrabo, Amal Adel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 179985289X ISBN 13: 9781799852896

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2020

Synopsis

Transnational migration studies tend to conceptualize a clear spatial distinction between refugee camps and their surroundings as "spaces of the displaced" and "spaces of the citizen" respectively. However, the geography of memory, when seen through the prism of a space-state-citizenship relationship, is much more complicated and difficult to disentangle. Only when examining cultural preservation of memories of displacement can we shed light on these complex connections.

Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced is a collection of innovative research that examines the preservation of socio-cultural memory in the wake of disaster and violence. Featuring coverage of a broad range of topics including conscription, refugee culture, and climate change, this book is ideally designed for human rights workers, activists, historians, policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and students in the fields of sociology, anthropology, geography, politics, and urban planning.

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About the Authors

Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus is a PhD in Geography from the University of Poitiers, MIGRINTER/CNRS. She also holds an MPA in Strategic Public Policy (The American University of Paris) and a MA in International Affairs and Sociology of Conflicts (Institut Catholique de Paris). As a Haitian-born social scientist and independent researcher, she was formerly a Visiting Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Advanced Study, University of London (2016-2017), and in the Faculty of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham (Autumn 2017-2018). Her research lies at the intersection of diaspora and memory politics, critical migration and development studies. Email: rceus777@yahoo.fr

Stevens Aguto Odongoh is a Social Anthropologist with a special interest in borders and borderland dynamics. Affiliated to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, and he earned his and Masters of Philosophy in Anthropology of Development, University of Bergen, Norway. His fieldwork area is the borderland between northern Uganda and Southern Sudan with special focus on Acholi people with experience in research, education with a particular focus on community rural development. Odongoh has research experience in a range of thematic areas including human and indigenous rights, development policy regimes and natural resource management. His current research and papers are concerned with the linkages between local/indigenous ecological knowledge, poverty and the management of natural resources. He is currently working on a paper on Poverty and fishing in Lake Victoria under the PovFish Programme funded by the Norwegian Research Council. His teaching experience includes the supervision and teaching of Bachelors’ level courses at Makerere University. He has trained and also has practical knowledge in the areas of Anthropological theory, Practical Methodology and anthropological fieldwork, ethnography, poverty, and social transformation, language, and Culture. At Makerere, he has been participating in monitoring students and conducting orientation workshops for new students, offering counselling services and career guidance to students together with other colleagues.

Amal Adel Abdrabo is an urban sociologist and visual anthropologist who works at the Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt. She is a former BNGS Fellow at the School of GAPP, The American University in Cairo, Egypt (AUC) where she worked on a project that deals with Palestinian Refugees’ memories (2014-2016). She is also a Visiting Post Doctor Scholar at the Center for African Studies at Basel University, Switzerland. She published and co-authored a lot of academic papers covering the previously mentioned fields of research in both Arabic and English. Her research interests cover development studies; migration studies; urban sociology; and visual anthropology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 179985289X
• ISBN 13: 9781799852896
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 203