What We Brought with Us

Download or read book What We Brought with Us written by Vanessa Agnew and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and autobiographical vignettes, this richly illustrated volume draws on such observations to examine the meanings that possessions assume when they are wrenched from their original contexts. The contributors to this collection shine an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes by conflict and forced into exile by authoritarian regimes. In so doing, the contributors underscore the necessity for civil societies to support academic freedom and the work done by critical thinkers worldwide.