Home, Uprooted
Oral Histories of India's Partition
Devika Chawla
"Home, Uprooted is a beautifully written, theoretically sophisticated and disarmingly fluid analysis of the idea of home through oral histories with three generations of Partition refugees from Delhi, India. Devika Chawla explores what home means to those who have been displaced; how the notion of home has a life of its own, and why it is important to tell this story of an Un/homely Partition."-Himika Bhattacharya, Syracuse University
The Indian Independence Act of 1947 granted India freedom from British rule, signaling the formal end of the British Raj in the subcontinent. This freedom, though, came at a price: partition, the division of the country into India and Pakistan, and the communal riots that followed. These riots resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1 million Hindus and Muslims and the displacement of about 20 million persons on both sides of the border. This watershed socioeconomic-geopolitical moment cast an enduring shadow on India's relationship with neighboring Pakistan. Presenting a perspective of the middle-class refugees who were forced from their homes, jobs, and lives with the withdrawal of British rule in India, Home, Uprooted delves into the lives of forty-five Partition refugees and their descendants to show how this epochal event continues to shape their lives.
Exploring the oral histories of three generations of refugees from India's Partition--ten Hindu and Sikh families in Delhi, Home, Uprooted melds oral histories with a fresh perspective on current literature to unravel the emergent conceptual nexus of home, travel, and identity in the stories of the participants. Author Devika Chawla argues that the ways in which her participants imagine, recollect, memorialize, or "abandon" home in their everyday narratives give us unique insights into how refugee identities are constituted. These stories reveal how migrations are enacted and what home-in its sense, absence, and presence-can mean for displaced populations.
Fordham University Press
ISBN 9780823256440 288pp £19.99 now only £14.99 when you quote CS1014HOME when you order.
Global Rome
Changing Faces of the Eternal City
Edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro & Bjørn Thomassen
"[I]nnovative.... [T]here is no equivalent book currently available in any language.... [W]ill lend itself to semester-length courses on Rome as an 'urban laboratory.'" -John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles
Is 21st-century Rome a global city? Is it part of Europe's core or periphery? This volume examines the "real city" beyond Rome's historical center, exploring the diversity and challenges of life in neighborhoods affected by immigration, neoliberalism, formal urban planning, and grassroots social movements. The contributors engage with themes of contemporary urban studies; the global city, the self-made city, alternative modernities, capital cities and nations, urban change from below, and sustainability. Global Rome serves as a provocative introduction to the Eternal City and makes an original contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship.
Indiana University Press
July 2014 310pp 20 b&w illustrations 9780253012951 PB £20.99 now only £15.74 when you quote CS1014HOME when you order.
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