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In 2018, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees documented a record high 71.4 million displaced people around the world. As states struggle with the costs of providing protection to so many people and popular conceptions of refugees have become increasingly politicized and sensationalized, researchers have come together to form regional and global networks dedicated to working with displaced people to learn how to respond to their needs ethically, compassionately, and for the best interests of the global community. Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together academics and practitioners to reflect on a global collaborative refugee research network. Together, the members of this network have had a wide-ranging impact on research and policy, working to bridge silos, sectors, and regions. They have addressed power and politics in refugee research, engaged across tensions between the Global North and Global South, and worked deeply with questions of practice, methodology, and ethics in refugee research. Bridging scholarship on network building for knowledge production and scholarship on research with and about refugees, Mobilizing Global Knowledge brings together a vibrant collection of topics and perspectives. It addresses ethical methods in research practice, the possibilities of social media for data collection and information dissemination, environmental displacement, transitional justice, and more. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how to create and share knowledge to the benefit of the millions of people around the world who have been forced to flee their homes. With Contributions By: Mohammad Jalal Abbasi-Shavazi , Paula Banerjee, Pablo Bose, Nergis Canefe, Christina Clark-Kazak, Don Dippo, Wenona Giles, Susan Kneebone, Ellen Percy Kraly, Loren B. Landau, Elizabeth Lunstrum, Susan F. Martin, Susan McGrath, Michele Millard, Petra Molnar, William J. Payne, Ranabir Samaddar, Beatriz Eugenia Sánchez-Mojica, James C. Simeon, Lisa Singh, Brittany Lauren Wheeler, and Julie E.E. Young.

Global migration --- Refugee --- Research --- Displacement --- Military

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This anthology sheds new light on cosmopolitanism and culture in the contemporary world. Drawing on postcolonial, ethnic, and critical race studies as well as recent literary and critical theory, it demonstrates that new cosmopolitan thinking can embrace an awareness of ethnic and local differences. It disputes the utopianism of colorblind universalism and argues for the persistence of "race" and racialized thinking in lived experience. The essays collected in this volume valorize minoritarian perspectives and urge readers to rethink cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the underprivileged and marginalized and highlight the role of culture in mobilizing social empathy and solidarity with the world's precariat. The contributors, who come from over a dozen different countries and from diverse socio-cultural backgrounds, constitute a vibrant cosmopolitan community in itself.

cosmopolitanism, ethnicity, race, multiculturalism, nomads, migration, displacement, neo-colonialism, globalization. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.

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Für alle, die im Mietverhältnis wohnen, kann es plötzlich sehr schnell gehen: ein Brief der Hausverwaltung, der die Kündigung aufgrund baulicher Aufwertung und Verdichtung enthält. Mieter*innen sind gezwungen, wegen Abrissen oder Sanierungen auszuziehen oder gar das Quartier zu verlassen, um eine bezahlbare Wohnung zu finden. Die Autor*innen geben durch eine qualitative Studie, angelegt im Schweizer Mittelland, vielschichtige Einblicke in diese Lebensrealität. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Perspektiven Betroffener und deren Umgang mit dem (drohenden) Wohnungsverlust. Das Erleben direkter Verdrängung liefert wichtige Hinweise für wohnpolitische und sozialarbeiterische Initiativen.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban. --- City. --- Civil Society. --- Compaction. --- Demolition. --- Displacement. --- Gentrification. --- Habitation. --- Housing Question. --- Loss of Home. --- Neoliberalism. --- Notice. --- Redevelopment. --- Social Inequality. --- Sociology. --- Switzerland. --- Urban Studies.

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Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of “domicide” or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.

Zombies --- Alienation (Social psychology) --- Displacement (Psychology) --- Popular culture --- Zombies in popular culture. --- Zombies in motion pictures. --- Zombies in literature. --- Society in literature. --- Civilization, Modern. --- Psychological aspects. --- Social aspects.

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"Austerity Baby might best be described as an ‘oblique memoir’. Janet Wolff’s fascinating volume is a family history – but one that is digressive and consistently surprising. The central underlying and repeated themes of the book are exile and displacement; lives (and deaths) during the Third Reich; mother-daughter and sibling relationships; the generational transmission of trauma and experience; transatlantic reflections; and the struggle for creative expression. Stories mobilised, and people encountered, in the course of the narrative include: the internment of aliens in Britain during the Second World War; cultural life in Rochester, New York, in the 1920s; the social and personal meanings of colour(s); the industrialist and philanthropist, Henry Simon of Manchester, including his relationship with the Norwegian explorer, Fridtjof Nansen; the liberal British campaigner and MP of the 1940s, Eleanor Rathbone; reflections on the lives and images of spinsters. The text is supplemented and interrupted throughout by images (photographs, paintings, facsimile documents), some of which serve to illustrate the story, others engaging indirectly with the written word."

Art critics --- Art and society. --- Jews --- Jewish families --- Social conditions --- Wolff, Janet --- Family. --- 1900-1999 --- England --- second world war --- manchester --- uk --- spinsters --- exile --- displacement --- henry simon of manchester --- eleanor rathbone --- third reich --- art --- fridtjof nansen --- rochester --- new york --- Manchester