Cultural heritage and mobility from a multisensory perspective

Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective bridges the gap between cultural heritage and mobility studies through the employment of theoretical and methodological multisensory perspectives. An interdisciplinary volume covering a broad range of empirical cases, this book focuses on the engagement with cultural heritage in the context of mobility. The book presents a grassroots perspective of individual heritage performances by mobile and moving actors, analyzing them with close attention to their embodied aspects: bodily experiences, sensory impressions, and the affect and emotions they evoke. As a result, the collection of case studies presented covers empirical, theoretical, and methodological accounts of the embodiment of heritage in the context of mobility on macro, meso, and micro levels, exploring heritage change and mobility from a multisensory perspective. Cultural Heritage and Mobility from a Multisensory Perspective is primarily targeted at scholars, students and practitioners working within and at the intersection of the fields of cultural heritage and mobility. It will also be of interest to those engaged in the study of tourism, migration and integration studies

Polish as a heritage language around the world : selected diaspora communities

Polish as a Heritage Language Around the World provides a timely insight into Polish diaspora communities around the world and their endeavours in heritage language maintenance and education. This edited collection depicts and analyses the unique challenges associated with the intergenerational transmission of Polish as a language that has not had high visibility and status in the surrounding society. Chapters within the volume examine how these circumstances impact the maintenance of the heritage language and affect the capacity to support biliteracy development among younger generations of speakers. Offering an overview of key concepts and theoretical issues, practical pedagogical guidance, and field‑advancing suggestions for further research, Polish as a Heritage Language Around the World will be of interest to researchers and instructors of Polish around the world, as well as those interested in second‑language acquisition and heritage language studies

Refugees and population transfer management in Europe : 1914-1920s

This book provides a comprehensive study of refugee movements and population transfers across Europe during the First World War and the early postwar period. Drawing parallels with contemporary migration issues, the book serves a social and educational purpose by highlighting Europe's history of migration and emphasizing the relevance of past experiences to current challenges. It seeks to enhance understanding, raise social awareness, and contribute to the broader discourse on war refugeeism by applying historical insights to address contemporary migration crises. The authors discuss how issues of refugee movements and population transfers were addressed in different contexts and reflect on refugees as both war-induced migrants and political tools for authorities. The book covers a range of topics including humanitarian systems during the war and the early postwar period, refugee locations, policy influence, national issues, self-organization, and aid for refugees, as well as immigration control in time after bordering the postimperial Europe. It also addresses the composition of populations in postwar reconstruction processes and its population dynamics. This volume will be of value to those interested in modern European history, social and political history

Bringing it all together : the maintenance of the Polish language outside of Poland

Regardless of the reasons that are forcing or encouraging people to leave their homeland and settle down outside its borders, emigration as a phenomenon opens up a broad field for historical, political, and (socio)linguistic research revolving around many issues such as language transmission and maintenance, language shift, the relation between language and identity, language policy and planning, child/adult bilingualism and many others

Women's heritage homing in Rio de Janeiro's favelas

This chapter discusses the homemaking process by favela women in Rio who were domestic migrants or descendants of forced migrants during slavery. It analyses the self-made houses of the respondents as familial and personal heritage sites, adding the bottom-up perspective to the literature on houses as cultural heritage objects and contributing to the discussion on the role of houses and homemaking in the issues of belonging and identity within the mobility studies. The contribution of this chapter to the broader cultural heritage-mobility nexus regards the development of a concept of heritage homing defined as the making oneself home in the houses that are considered a part of the individual/familial heritage and the everyday practices of heritage-making that are unfolded through the homing. It builds on the processual conceptualisations of the homemaking practices within mobility studies, and performative approaches to cultural heritage popularised within Critical Heritage Discourse. The chapter discusses the strategies undertaken to materialise individual aspirations of homes that rely heavily on mobility and include collecting money through migration, building, choosing aesthetics, and performing embodied practices to make the houses into the homes. By doing so it studies how heritage homing is enacted through the multisensory practices of people