Listen "On Diaspora - with Ghassan Hage"
Episode Synopsis
What does it mean to live in a world defined by mobility, a world where the here and now are also so centrally defined multiple elsewheres?
In this episode, On Diaspora, our guest, Ghassan Hage, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, engages in a thought-provoking discussion of the concept of diaspora.
Hage brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this complex subject. In the recent book, The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World (2021), Hage explores innovative perspectives that challenge conventional notions of living in a lifeworld where the boundaries of location extend beyond mere spatial and temporal distances.
Hage, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has published a vast number collection of works, including White Nation (1998); Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003); After-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (2015); and Is Racism an Environmental Threat? (2017).
#diaspora #migration #ethnographicimaginationbasel #anthropology
Host:
George Paul Meiu, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Institute of Social Anthropology) in collaboration with the New Media Center at the University of Basel
In this episode, On Diaspora, our guest, Ghassan Hage, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, engages in a thought-provoking discussion of the concept of diaspora.
Hage brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to this complex subject. In the recent book, The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World (2021), Hage explores innovative perspectives that challenge conventional notions of living in a lifeworld where the boundaries of location extend beyond mere spatial and temporal distances.
Hage, a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, has published a vast number collection of works, including White Nation (1998); Against Paranoid Nationalism (2003); After-Politics: Critical Anthropology and the Radical Imagination (2015); and Is Racism an Environmental Threat? (2017).
#diaspora #migration #ethnographicimaginationbasel #anthropology
Host:
George Paul Meiu, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Institute of Social Anthropology) in collaboration with the New Media Center at the University of Basel
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