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Between Hospitality and Hostility: The Experience of Migration Through Things.
- Source :
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Journal of Intercultural Studies . Oct2022, Vol. 43 Issue 5, p573-588. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- In this article, I propose the category of 'hospitable things', and argue that it can improve our understanding of the relationships between subjects and objects in the situation of migration. The analysis uses a case study of Polish migration to territories of pre-war Germany and the Free City of Danzig – the so-called Recovered Territories [Ziemie Odzyskane] – in the twilight of World War II. Based on primary sources from the time, I scrutinise how the new Polish settlers transformed German property into 'hospitable things' with substantial help from the post-war propaganda. I reconstruct the affective atmosphere of the period and confront these expectations with the actual experience of hostility materialised by everyday things. The image of 'hospitable things' – waiting and ready to be taken – has been formed through the experience of migration in radically inhospitable circumstances. 'Hospitable things' enable people to cope with the emotions accompanying the fragile experience of displacement; they help to form and transform fears and insecurities, but also desires and wants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HOSTILITY
*PROPAGANDA
*INTERNATIONALIZED territories
*HOSPITALITY
*WAR
*EMOTIONS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07256868
- Volume :
- 43
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Intercultural Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 158109841
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2022.2063817