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The Handbook of Displacement

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Editors:
  1. Peter Adey

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  2. Janet C. Bowstead

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  3. Katherine Brickell

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  4. Vandana Desai

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  5. Mike Dolton

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  6. Alasdair Pinkerton

    1. Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

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  7. Ayesha Siddiqi

    1. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

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  • A landmark text that traces the achievements and knowledge gaps in the inter-disciplinary study of displacement

  • Innovative in its reframing of displacement beyond international development and development studies

  • A unique collection of conceptual, methodological and empirical chapters from scholars across the humanities and social sciences

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Table of contents (55 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Introduction to Displacement Studies: Knowledges, Concepts, Practices

    • Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton et al.
    Pages 1-37

  3. Section One: Conceptualising Displacement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Mobilities and Displacement

      • Mimi Sheller
      Pages 41-53

    3. Political Ecologies of Displacement

      • Rebecca Elmhirst
      Pages 55-65

    4. Displacement Economies: A Relational Approach to Displacement

      • Amanda Hammar
      Pages 67-77

    5. The Slow and the Fast Violence of Displacement

      • James A. Tyner
      Pages 79-88

    6. Assembling Climate Change-Related Displacement

      • Leonie Tuitjer
      Pages 89-97

    7. Affect and Displacement

      • Mark Griffiths
      Pages 99-107

    8. Protection of Displaced Persons and the Rights-Based Approach

      • Rónán McDermott, Pat Gibbons, Sinéad McGrath
      Pages 109-120

    9. Queering Displacement/The Displacement of Queers

      • Scott McKinnon
      Pages 121-129

    10. Gendered and Feminist Approaches to Displacement

      • Katherine Brickell, Jessie Speer
      Pages 131-141

    11. ‘Race,’ Ethnicity, and Forced Displacement

      • Luisa F. Freier, Matthew D. Bird, Soledad Castillo Jara
      Pages 143-156

    12. Conceptualising Postcolonial Displacement Beyond Aid and Protection

      • Jose Jowel Canuday
      Pages 157-169

  4. Section Two: Technologies of Displacement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Intervention: Displacement Aesthetics

      • Kaya Barry, Peter Adey
      Pages 173-177

    3. The Artwashing of Gentrification and Social Cleansing

      • Stephen Pritchard
      Pages 179-198

    4. Taking the Weather with You: Remittances, Translocality, and the Climate Migrant Within

      • Laurie Parsons
      Pages 199-216

    5. Barbed Displacement: Walls to the Disciplined Migrant

      • Bénédicte Michalon
      Pages 217-235

    6. Technologies of Deportation

      • William Walters
      Pages 237-254
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About this book

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 of the 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.


Reviews

“The book as is offers a never-before-seen set of case studies that ties together displacement-related experiences and policies from the Global North and the South. I think that the editors have done a marvelous job. … this book could be used as a supplementary text for a variety of courses in the fields of geography and urban studies. It is truly a valuable ‘handbook’ of displacement for many fields of study.” (Aysegul Can, Journal of Urban Affairs, August 17, 2021)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

    Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton

  • Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Ayesha Siddiqi

About the editors

Peter Adey is Professor in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.


Janet Bowstead is a researcher at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 


Katherine Brickell is Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 


Mike Dolton is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 

Vandana Desai is Senior Lecturer in Development Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. 


Alasdair Pinkerton is Reader and Associate Professor in Geopolitics at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. 


Ayesha Siddiqi is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Handbook of Displacement

  • Editors: Peter Adey, Janet C. Bowstead, Katherine Brickell, Vandana Desai, Mike Dolton, Alasdair Pinkerton, Ayesha Siddiqi

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47178-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47177-4Published: 12 December 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-47180-4Published: 13 December 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-47178-1Published: 11 December 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 825

  • Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Human Geography, Development Studies, Economic Geography, Migration

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