Making Home: Seminar Four

Making Home looks at the intersection of settler colonialism, forced and unforced migration, and domesticity. While home is often understood as limited to domestic space, this seminar series imagines home-making as both multi-sited and multi-scalar, intimately tied into the politics of local territorial claims and global geopolitical structures. Practices of home-making and unmaking extend from the materiality of site and place to the immaterial practices and ideological foundations that enable a claim or enforce dispossession. Thinking more deeply about homemaking as a territorial claim to belonging, this series asks: how does that claim function similarly/differently in the contexts of migration and colonialism?

With guest speaker Professor Hagar Kotef.