Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility
Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility
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边界以及位移、安置和流动的节奏
DOI:
10.1002/9781118255223.ch22
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发表时间:
2012
影响因子:
2.3
通讯作者:
Pamela Ballinger
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作者:
Pamela Ballinger
390 PAMELA BALLINGER possessed of cigarettes, sunglasses, and style (Stoller 1992: 135). Rouch’s earlier Songhay films, however, tell a different story of isolated villages in which residents travel on quite restricted circuits (Stoller 1992: 131). Rouch’s diverse cinematic reflections on the Songhay highlight the tensions in scholarly studies of borders between, on the one hand, sedentarist perspectives that privilege rootedness and fixity and, on the other, anti-sedentarist approaches that take movement and deterritorialization as “inherent” conditions. At issue are the meanings of place, home and identity in a global terrain or regime of mobility marked by unequal access and capacities. These sedentarist/anti-sedentarist debates assume particular urgency when scholars focus on displacement–physical, emotional, virtual–across borders, the topic of this essay. Displacement generally implies a degree of forced or involuntary migration (Malkki 1995b: 495), although scholars continue to argue over the conceptual relationship between displacement, refugees, and forced migration and the place of displacement studies within the broader field of migration scholarship (see, for example, the debate between Adelman and McGrath 2007; Cohen 2007; Hathaway 2007; Chimni 2009).Regardless of how scholars locate displacement in the landscape of migration studies, or whether scholars posit movement and mobility as a rupture or the normal state of things, many studies of displacement prove too narrow, focusing on populations which leave and the places they go to the neglect of the homes and neighbors they leave behind. In an influential 1995 review article on refugees and exile, Malkki outlined the limitations of such a one-sided view of displacement:“In many works of refugee studies, there is an implicit assumption that in becoming ‘torn loose’from their cultures,‘uprooted’from their homes, refugees suffer the loss of all contact to the lifeworlds they fled. It is as if the place left behind were no longer peopled”(1995b: 515).