Aesthetics of the Unfamiliar
Experiencing Displacement, Reviving Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2229034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Hänsch (0000-0002-0401-0623, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 458-464 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/720382 |
| OpenAlex | W4281741374 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
In this photographic essay, I explore the aesthetics and experiences of displacement among peasants in rural northern Sudan who were flooded out of their homes along the Nile during the 2003-2009 Merowe Dam construction project. The radically changing environment shaped people's perception of displacement as they attempted to stay and revive life in their homeland on the shores of the expanding reservoir. In this essay, I try to evoke the sensory perceptions and experiences of a world falling apart-its fragmentation, as well as its simultaneous re-formation-by focusing on what I call the "aesthetics of the unfamiliar
Aesthetics · Art · Displacement (psychology · Homeland · Perception · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Law · Psychology · Water Governance and Infrastructure
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |