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About this book
Arising from the legacies of the twentieth century - unprecedented worldwide migration, unrelenting global conflict and warring, unchecked materialist consumption, and unconscionable environmental degradation - are important questions about the toll of loss such changes exact, individually and collectively. As large-scale and ubiquitous as these changes are, their deep specificity re-inscribes the importance of place as a critical construct. Attending to such specificity emphasizes the interconnections between contexts and broader movements and remains a prudent route to articulating critical interconnections among places and peoples in complex times. This book of essays turns to such specificity as a means to examine the inflections of migration on identity- displacement, disorientation, loss, and difference- as sites of both regression and possibility. Fusing autobiography and cultural analysis, it provides a framework for a critical education attuned to such concerns.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: At Sea: Toward an Educational Discourse of Loss and Place
- 1 Losing Place: Reluctant Leavings and Ambivalent Returns
- 2 Writing “The Distance Home”: Migration, Mourning, and Difference
- 3 “The Word, for Loss”: Literacy, Longing and Belonging
- 4 Separation, (Re)connection, and a Transformative Education of Place
- 5 The Place of Reparation: Loss, Ambivalence and Teaching
- Conclusion: “Learning to Live with Ghosts”: Loss, Place, and Education
- Notes
- References
- Index