Tag: Return

Cinematic Homecomings Exile and Return in Transnational Cinema


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English | ISBN: 1441124470 | 2014 | 336 pages | PDF | 5 MB
The history of cinema charts multiple histories of exile. From the German émigrés in 1930s Hollywood to today’s Iranian filmmakers in Europe and the United States, these histories continue to exert a profound influence on the evolution of cinematic narratives and aesthetics. But while the effect of exile and diaspora on film practice has been fruitfully explored from both historical and contemporary perspectives, the issues raised by return, whether literal or metaphorical, have yet to be fully considered.

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The Return of the Neighborhood as an Urban Strategy


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English | ISBN: 0252081412 | 2015 | 208 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this new volume, Michael A. Pagano curates essays focusing on the neighborhood’s role in urban policy solutions. The papers emerged from dynamic discussions among policy makers, researchers, public intellectuals, and citizens at the 2014 UIC Urban Forum. As the writers show, the greater the city, the more important its neighborhoods and their distinctions.

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Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist


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English | ISBN: 022629255X | 2015 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In this book, Israeli anthropologist André Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history-from the Jewish Enlightenment and the impending colonialism of the late nineteenth century to today’s modern Arab state-Levy paints a rich portrait of two communities pressed together, of the tremendous mobility that has characterized the past century, and of the paradoxes that complicate the cultural identities of the present.

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Return Migration and Psychosocial Wellbeing Discourses, Policy-Making and Outcomes for Migrants and their Families


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English | ISBN: 0367878321 | 2019 | 280 pages | EPUB | 841 KB
Return migration is a topic of growing interest among academics and policy makers. Nonetheless, issues of psychosocial wellbeing are rarely discussed in its context.

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Return Migration and Nation Building in Africa Reframing the Somali Diaspora


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English | ISBN: 0367664887 | 2020 | 178 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Return migration has received growing levels of attention in both academic and policy circles in recent years, as the African diaspora’s role in contributing to the development of their country of origin has become apparent. However, little is known about the lived experiences of those who come back, and even less about the ways in which their return shapes socio-political dynamics on the ground. This book aims to unpack the complexities of migrant transnational experiences as situated in global political and economic processes.

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In Search of Return Mourning the Disappearances in Kashmir


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2021 | 172 Pages | ISBN: 1498582486 | PDF | 2 MB
Beginning in 1989, more than 8,000 men disappeared in Kashmir. These disappearances were publicly denied, leaving mourners to grapple with unrecognized grief. Drawn from ten years of psycho-historical research in Kashmir, Shifa Haq reflects on the bereaved families’ intricate experiences of mourning. Haq expands the psychoanalytic understanding of loss and argues for a mourning that includes porous affective links with the political.

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A Return to Servitude Maya Migration and the Tourist Trade in Cancún


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2010 | 296 Pages | ISBN: 0816656150 | PDF | 3 MB
As a free trade zone and Latin America’s most popular destination, Cancún, Mexico, is more than just a tourist town. It is not only actively involved in the production of transnational capital but also forms an integral part of the state’s modernization plan for rural, indigenous communities. Indeed, Maya migrants make up over a third of the city’s population.A Return to Servitude is an ethnography of Maya migration within Mexico that analyzes the foundational role indigenous peoples play in the development of the modern nation-state. Focusing on tourism in the Yucatán Peninsula, M. Bianet Castellanos examines how Cancún came to be equated with modernity, how this city has shaped the political economy of the peninsula, and how indigenous communities engage with this vision of contemporary life. More broadly, she demonstrates how indigenous communities experience, resist, and accommodate themselves to transnational capitalism.Tourism and the social stratification that results from migration have created conflict among the Maya. At the same time, this work asserts, it is through engagement with modernity and its resources that they are able to maintain their sense of indigeneity and community.

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