Materialising Exile: Material Culture and the Embodied Experience of Karenni Refugee-ness

这个关于被迫迁移的创新项目将在泰缅边境的克伦尼难民营中探索身份，物质文化，身体和身体体验之间的关系。它将着眼于难民的记忆，遗忘和（重新）想象，特别是与真实的和隐喻的旅程，它将研究难民如何感知，代表，操纵，使用隐喻，并以其他方式与物质对象和空间。这一独特的重点将深刻推进难民和难民性的概念化和理论化的方式，以及促进对克伦尼难民人口多样性的具体理解。

This innovative project on forced migration will explore relationships between identities, material culture, the body and physical experience, in a Karenni refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border. It will look at these dimensions in refugee remembering, forgetting and (re-)imagining, particularly in relation to real and metaphorical journeys and it will examine how refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces. This unique focus will profoundly advance the ways in which refugees and refugee-ness are conceptualised and theorised more generally, as well as furthering particular understanding of the diverse population of Karenni refugees