The Handbook of Displacement (Paperback)

This Handbook provides the knowledge and tools needed to understand how displacement is lived governed and mediated as an unfolding and grounded process bound up in spatial inequities of power and injustice. The handbook ensures first that internal displacements and their everyday (re)occurrences are not overlooked; second it questions who counts by including displaced people who are less obviously identifiable and a clearly circumscribed or categorised group; third it stresses that while displacement suggests mobility there are also periods and spaces of enforced stillness that are not adequately reflected in the displacement literature; and fourth it re-evokes and explores the place in displacement by critically interrogating peoples right to place and the significance of placemaking unmaking and remaking in the contemporary world. The 50-plus chapters are organised across seven themes designed to further develope interdisciplinary study ofthe technologies journeys traces governance more-than-human representation and resisting of displacement. Each of these thematic sections begin with an intervention which spotlights actions to creatively and strategically intervene in displacement. The interventions explore myriad meanings and manifestations of displacement and its contestation from the perspective of displaced people artists writers activists scholar-activists and scholars involved in practice-oriented research. The Handbook will be an essential companion for academics students and practitioners committed to forging solidarity care and home in an era of displacement.