Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
Abstract
Autorica predlaže preusmjeravanje interesa za predmete kao reprezentaciju društvenih odnosa prema samoj materijalnosti predmeta u transnacionalnim migracijskim kontekstima. Više pažnje valja posvetiti onome što ljudi čine da bi održali veze kojima su konstituirani transnacionalni društveni prostori. Te su veze bitno materijalno određene, a često i ovisne o predmetima koje migranti nose, šalju, primaju i koriste. Primarnost istraživačkog fokusa na diskurse identiteta i pripadanja upitna je; razumijevanje bivanja – praksi i iskustava u kojima predmeti igraju važnu ulogu – nužno je za razumijevanje načina na koji ljudi (p)ostaju akterima u transnacionalnim društvenim prostorima.The author suggests the shifting of interest from the object of representation of social relationships to the material nature of objects in transnational migrational contexts. More attention has to be dedicated to what people do in order to maintain links which constitute transnational social spaces. Those links are materially defined and frequently depend on objects the migrants carry, send, accept and use. Setting research focus on the discourses of identity and belonging is questionable; understanding of being – practices and living experiences in which objects play the vital role is essential for understanding the ways in which people become and remain active agents in transnational social spaces
