Book Launch: Marija Grujic: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands [EN]
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Research Factory B/ORDERS IN MOTION
11. Juni 2025, 16:15-17:45 Uhr
HYBRID: on-site in room HG 109 & online
Book Launch:
Marija Grujić: Belonging in Unhomely Homelands. Internal Displacement and Gendered Nationalism among Kosovo Serbs (Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings, Vol 5). New York/Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2025
With:
- Dr. Marija Grujić (Author - DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow, Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
- Prof. Dr. Oksana Mikheieva (Discussant - Professor of Sociology at the Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) / IFES / ZOIS)
- Prof. Dr. Tom Selwyn (Discussant - Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London, and co-editor of the series "Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings" for Berghahn publishers)
- Dr. Darja Klingenberg (Dicussant – Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION)
About the book
Based on biographical narratives and feminist, postcolonial approaches, Belonging in Unhomely Homelands examines how internally displaced Kosovo Serbs traverse gendered nationalism, uncertain futures, and the affective pull of place. The book introduces the concepts of oscillations of belonging and out-of-placeness to explore how displacement troubles the idea of home, particularly when ethnic kinship does not guarantee belonging. It highlights the tensions between collective memory and individual trajectories, as well as the emotional, spatial, and temporal dimensions of protracted displacement and estranged dwelling.
ISBN: 9781805398219
E-Book in Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781805398219
sponsored by: Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative
About the author
Dr Marija Grujić is a DFG Walter Benjamin Fellow of the German Research Foundation at the Chair of Comparative Cultural and Social Anthropology, European University Viadrina, and a member of the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION. Her research focuses on gender orders, politics of (non)belonging, asylum infrastructures, postcolonial feminist theory, and digitalisation in migration governance.
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