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The global border regimes threaten to escalate, and state-controlled refugee camps dominate the discourse while contrary viewpoints seem to be missing. Focusing on autonomous settlements in France, Italy, and Chile, Melanie Garland follows how communities on the move transform so-called non-places into social places through practices of inbetweenness, resisting border regimes and creating sites of belonging and political imagination. Attuned to the oceans connecting these places, her study draws on artistic and multimodal anthropology to develop a holistic approach that combines sensory and affective methods to explore these urban practices. It offers insights for social sciences, the arts, and readers interested in urban future-making shaped by collective agency.
Price: $72.00
Pages: 350
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Global Studies
Publication Date:
30 June 2026
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837680720
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
»Melanie Garland’s unique research offers a particularly innovative multimodal ethnographic and artistically reflexive perspective. The book provides new approaches and dense insights into (post-)migrant practices of place-making.«
»Melanie Garland’s book is a well-researched and challenging work at the intersection of artistic practice and ethnography. She succeeds in treating these very difficult topics with much dignity, which is especially evident in the section ›Hope as a prefigurative practice,‹ where she proposes the use of ›hope‹ as a method to analyze the social practices within such places.«
»Melanie Garland’s book is a well-researched and challenging work at the intersection of artistic practice and ethnography. She succeeds in treating these very difficult topics with much dignity, which is especially evident in the section ›Hope as a prefigurative practice,‹ where she proposes the use of ›hope‹ as a method to analyze the social practices within such places.«
Melanie Garland (Dr.) is an artist, heritage restorer, researcher and lecturer. She earned a PhD from the Institute of European Ethnology at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin for her multimodal project Somewhere Inbetween. Her research topics are postmigrant societies, postcolonial and urban studies, and decolonial practices through artistic-ethnographic methods. She is working at the intersection of art and anthropology through collaborative installation, sound art, and performative and curatorial processes grounded in feminist ethics of care. ---