(Post)Memories of Forced Migration - (Forced Migration Studies) by Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Paperback)

About the Book

Arts-based approaches in analyzing long-term effects of forced migration.

Book Synopsis

How can forced migration be understood and represented through the arts? Bringing arts-based research into dialogue with approaches from the humanities and social sciences, the contributions explore refuge, mass violence, statelessness, expulsion, expropriation, and exile. They examine how displacement and diasporic transnational movements are reflected in artistic practices, drawing on a broad historical perspective and focusing particularly on the Middle East and the global diaspora communities shaped by forced migration. By bringing together diverse disciplines, forms of knowledge, and artistic methods, the volume highlights the potential of arts-based approaches for understanding the experiences and legacies of displacement.

About the Author

Maria Six-Hohenbalken (Dr.), born in 1965, is a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology at Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften and a lecturer in the Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Universität Wien. Her fields of interest include the anthropology of violence, migration studies, refuge, diaspora, transnationalism, memory studies and historical anthropology. She works on visual anthropology and arts-based participatory research in Kurdish transnational settings.