A Contemporary Archaeology of Post-Displacement Resettlement

ISBN-13: 9781032161167 / Twarda / 2024 / 312 str.

Erin P. Riggs

Opis

This book explores the archaeology of the 1947 Partition, the largest mass migration in human history, and the resulting resettlement of half a million refugees in Delhi, India’s capital city.

Spis treści

1. A City of Refugees; Section 1: Built Landscapes of Resettlement; 2. The reuse of a Colonial Capital as Refugee Resource; 3. The Government Refugee Colony and Dreams of Egalitarianism-cum Enterprise; Section 2: Peoples’ Perceptions of Place; 4. Refugees and Evacuee Properties: Mitigating Memories and Meanings in Reused Out-Migrant Homes; 5. Refugees and Government Colonies:  Exercising Autonomy in Allotted Space; 6. Those Who Build Nations: Belonging as Lived and Malleable

O autorze

Erin P Riggs is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is a contemporary and historical archaeologist, and her research interests include welfare state initiatives, material culture, built landscapes, national belonging, and displacement in the recent past.