Publications
peer-reviewed publications in u:cris
“Today, we teach the kids where we are from": Event filmmaking and diasporic homemaking among Indian Muslims in North America
- Author(s)
- Sanderien Verstappen
- Abstract
How do people make themselves at home in situations of movement, dispersal, and marginalization? Migration scholars have destabilized the idea that a home is bound to a dwelling, and developed more processual ways of conceptualizing home. In this article I bring this research agenda into conversation with the anthropology of events, to conceptualize social events as a diasporic home-making practice. Methodologically, I demonstrate how event filmmaking, a genre of ethnographic filmmaking, can be used as a research method in event studies. To develop this conceptual and methodological contribution, I draw on my experiences while making a film about the Vohra families reunion, a community event for Indian Gujarati Muslims (Vohras) in the United States and Canada. I interpret the reunion’s potential as a home-making practice in the light of the social position of Muslims as a religious minority in the United States, in India, and in the Indian diaspora.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
- Journal
- HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
- Volume
- 14
- Pages
- 162–175
- No. of pages
- 14
- ISSN
- 2049-1115
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1086/729992
- Publication date
- 2022
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504017 Cultural anthropology, 504021 Migration research
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Anthropology
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/today-we-teach-the-kids-where-we-are-from-event-filmmaking-and-diasporic-homemaking-among-indian-muslims-in-north-america(ca87965d-4860-4143-9e58-f9426fd2a70c).html