Overview
- A landmark text that traces the achievements and knowledge gaps in the inter-disciplinary study of displacement
- Innovative in its reframing of displacement beyond international development and development studies
- A unique collection of conceptual, methodological and empirical chapters from scholars across the humanities and social sciences
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This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived, governed, and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice. The handbook ensures, first, that internal displacements and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second, it questions ‘who counts’ by including ‘displaced’ people who are less obviously identifiable and a clearly circumscribed or categorised group; third, it stresses that while displacement suggests mobility, there are also periods and spaces of enforced stillness that are not adequately reflected in the displacement literature; and fourth, it re-evokes and explores the ‘place’ in displacement by critically interrogating peoples’ ‘right to place’ and the significance of placemaking, unmaking, and remaking in the contemporary world.
The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study ofthe technologies, journeys, traces, governance, more-than-human, representation, and resisting of displacement. Each of these thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement. The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced people, artists, writers, activists, scholar-activists, and scholars involved in practice-oriented research.
The Handbook will be an essential companion for academics, students, and practitioners committed to forging solidarity, care, and home in an era of displacement.
The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study ofthe technologies, journeys, traces, governance, more-than-human, representation, and resisting of displacement. Each of these thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement. The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced people, artists, writers, activists, scholar-activists, and scholars involved in practice-oriented research.
The Handbook will be an essential companion for academics, students, and practitioners committed to forging solidarity, care, and home in an era of displacement.
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Table of contents (55 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Section One: Conceptualising Displacement
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Section Two: Technologies of Displacement
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Reviews
“The book as is offers a never-before-seen set of case studies that ties together displacement-related experiences and policies from the Global North and the South. I think that the editors have done a marvelous job. … this book could be used as a supplementary text for a variety of courses in the fields of geography and urban studies. It is truly a valuable ‘handbook’ of displacement for many fields of study.” (Aysegul Can, Journal of Urban Affairs, August 17, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter Adey is Professor in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Janet Bowstead is a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Katherine Brickell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Mike Dolton is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Vandana Desai is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Alasdair Pinkerton is Reader and Associate Professor in Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Ayesha Siddiqi is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Janet Bowstead is a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Katherine Brickell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Mike Dolton is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Vandana Desai is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.
Alasdair Pinkerton is Reader and Associate Professor in Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK.
Ayesha Siddiqi is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Handbook of Displacement
Editors: Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47177-4Published: 12 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47180-4Published: 13 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47178-1Published: 11 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 825
Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography, Development Studies, Economic Geography, Migration