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We are pleased to invite you to the 221st Gellner Seminar with Leonardo Schiocchet (Charles University). The seminar will be held on November 27 at 17:30 in the seminar room C321 at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Celetná 20).
INHABITING HOME IN EXILE: PALESTINIANNESS AS A SUBJUNCTIVE MORAL DESTINATION
In this talk, I propose to explore the polyvocal and inherently contested arena of Palestinianness as a moral place of belonging, for which I suggest the term „home“ as an anthropological category that denotes privileged social belonging compasses. This minimalist definition aims to be a heuristic site that allows us to explore ways of inhabiting a moral destination. The ways in which Palestinianness is conceived and negotiated among refugees and other Palestinian communities outside of Palestine are therefore understood as processes of constructing a „home.“ In this regard, I consider the definition of a „homeland“ in relation to Palestinian experiences and expressions of displacement and discuss the extent to which the terms diaspora and exile characterize Palestinian dispersion. I suggest that these experiences and expressions highlight the importance of studying affect and problematize an adequate „subjunctive“ definition of home as an anthropological category.
Bio:
Leonardo Schiocchet is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnology at Charles University (Prague) and Senior Researcher, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, and co-chair of the IUAES Commission on Migration. He is also an External Supervisor at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (IKSA) of the University of Vienna; and Research Associate at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (NEOM) at the Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro and at the International Migrations Research Centre (CEMI), Unicamp, São Paulo. Schiocchet holds a PhD in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and a Habilitation (venia docendi) in Social Anthropology (University of Vienna, 2021). His latest books include:Living in refuge (transcript Publishing, 2022); and Processes of Belonging and Social Organization among Arab Forced Migrants: Theoretical-Methodological Contributions (ABA Publicações e Editora Fi, 2024).