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Book SynopsisEmbracing the concept of marginality as a method for recovering histories of home, this book explores communities that have been seen to exist outside of western models of nineteenth- and twentieth-century domesticity, particularly as they were transplanted in and transformed by settler, Indigenous, and imperial geographies across the globe. In focusing their attention on Indigenous perspectives on home in the face of and despite colonial dislocations, both cultural and territorial, several contributors expose home's function as a site of cultural vitality and political resistance, as well as colonial violence, across a range of geographical contexts. In addition to highlighting previously marginalised, non-western perspectives on home, this collection explores the operation of domestic politics within nominally undomesticated spaces, as well as within seemingly unhomely historical experiences such as political activism, intergenerational trauma, and geographical explorati
