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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793187303321

Autore

Celestina Mateja

Titolo

Living displacement : The loss and making of place in Colombia / / Mateja Celestina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2018

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2018

ISBN

1-5261-2765-2

1-5261-0874-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 177 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

New ethnographies

Disciplina

362.8709861

Soggetti

Lebensbedingungen

Soziale Situation

Vertreibung

Umsiedlung

Refugees - Social conditions

Refugees - Colombia - Social conditions

Kolumbien

Colombia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives. It is based on a ten-month fieldwork employing ethnographic methods working, living and sharing with the displaced and their host. The book calls for a longer time-frame analysis of the phenomenon of displacement, which considers people's lives both pre- and post- physical relocation. It examines how violence and terror altered people's sense of place and set off displacement process before they actually moved. It analyses the challenges the displaced are facing in their subsequent place-making endeavours, including the negotiation



of social relations, consequences of categorization, engagement with the physical land, and memories of violence to challenge the notion that displacement starts with uprooting and terminates with resettlement or return.