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Series

Kultur und soziale Praxis. [More in this series]

Biographical/​Historical note

Lisa Johnson, born in 1988, is an associated postdoc researcher at the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Trier and a lecturer for Cultural Studies at Saarland University. She completed her doctorate in the field of cultural anthropology in 2020 as a member of the DFG-funded International Research Training Group Diversity: Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces at Trier University. Her main research areas focus on mobility, migration and return migration as well as transculturality, music and sound, in Jamaica and North America.

Summary note

In the complex and multi-layered process of migration and identity-building, classical migration theories and approaches of transnationalism seem no longer able to grasp how belonging and home are to be found in movement. This ethnography leads the reader into the lives of five Jamaican women in Montreal; their daily practices and experiences, their spaces of communion, their memories and projections for the future. Lisa Johnson sheds light on the mobile biographies and migratory agency of her interlocutors by following the intricate mental and physical trajectories of their deep-rooted yearning to return home.

Dissertation note

Doctoral Thesis Universität Trier 2020

Language note

In English.

Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 9 Abstract 11 1 Introduction 15 2 Historical Overview 21 3 Research Questions and Outline 29 4 Methodology 37 5 Theoretical Concepts 43 6 The City: Localizing Perspectives 61 7 Womanhood: Female Spaces 69 8 Laws of Attraction: Bodily Practices 89 9 Grandma's Tale: Mind-Trips and Memories 107 10 Take Off: Mobile Perspectives 121 11 Frictions in Paradise: Facing Facts 127 12 Roots, Pathways and Trajectories: Processes of Oscillation 147 13 Conclusion 163 References 171

Other title(s)

Johnson, Moves – Spaces – Places The Life Worlds of Jamaican Women in Montreal. An Ethnography

ISBN

• 9783839458082
• 3839458080

OCLC

• 1273973288
• 1280944852

International Article Number

9783839458082

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