Description
Book Synopsis The longstanding European conception that Roma and non-Roma are separated by unambiguous socio-cultural distinctions has led to the construction of Roma as “non-belonging others.” Challenging this conception, Textures of Belonging explores how Roma negotiate and feel belonging at the everyday level. Inspired by material culture, sensorial anthropology, and human geography approaches, this book uses ethnographic research to examine the role of domestic material forms and their sensorial qualities in nurturing connections with people and places that transcend socio-political boundaries.
Trade Review “It is a significant and original contribution to the sociological and anthropological literature on belonging: the spaces, places, objects, practices and smells that make up and ground such material… all enriched by the Romanian fieldwork data.” • Colin Clark, University of the West of Scotland
Table of Contents List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART I: MATERIALITIES OF BELONGING
Chapter 1. Ethics and Attempts
Chapter 2. Aesthetic Presences
Chapter 3. Modernising Absences
Chapter 4. Home Textures
Chapter 5. Tastes of Home
PART II: SENSES OF (NON-)BELONGING
Chapter 6. Olfactory Politics and Everyday Racism
Chapter 7. De-Constructions of ‘Olfactory Alterities’
Chapter 8. Writing Smells
Chapter 9. Manufacturing Smells
Conclusion: Sensing (Non-)Belonging
References
Index
