Brief outline of lectures: 1. Introductory lecture 2. Overview of anthropological concepts of home 3. Individual and collective identities from the perspective of social constructivism 4. Identity, territoriality and mobility 5. Identity, homeland and collective memory 6. Individual and collective identities from the perspective of narrative constructivism 7. Home as a place of formation of ethno-cultural identity 8. Home, homeland and national identity 9. Home and transnational identity 10. Home and diaspora identity 11. Displacement, voluntary repatriation, removal, exile. 12. Cosmopolitism and modern nomadism Recomended literature: Anderson, B. 1994. "Exodus." Critical Inquiry 20: 314-327. Allen, S. 2008. "Finding Home: Challenges Faced by Geograficaly Mobile Families." Family Relations 57, pp.84-99. Ferguson, J. and Gupta, A. 1997. "Beyond "Culture": Space, Identity, and The Politics of Difference." In Gupta, A. and Ferguson J. (eds.) Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology. Durham: Duke University Press, pp. 33-51. Mallett, S. 2004. "Understanding Home: a Critical Review of the Literature". The Editorial Board of the Sociological Review: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Rapport, N. and Dawson, A. 1998. Migrants of Identity: Perceptions of Home in a World of Movement. Oxford: Berg.
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The course will focus on anthropological concepts of home, belonging to place, home and homeland as a tool to grasp the issue of forming individual and collective identities of migrants in the contemporary world. The increasing mobility and multi-local reality of contemporary migrants break down the traditionally accepted assumption of the rooting of man in the place of origin, which largely shapes his identity, which is deteritorialized, transcending the national state (transnational identity). The idea of home is expressed in various symbolic ways through memories and ideas that create and reinforce the feelings of collective belonging to the place of origin that forms the collective identity of migrants, especially in diasporic and transnational communities. The concept of home as a constitutive part of identity will be demonstrated on various ethnographic examples including own field research among so called Namibian Czechs
acquiring knowledge of the identity and home of migrants, contemporary theories and concepts
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