Hostel, Home, and ‘Life-Rhythm’ for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents IX
3. Acknowledgements XIII
4. Preface XV
5. Foreword XVII
6. Introduction 1
7. Section 1: Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds
8. Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal (Dis)comfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses 10
9. Hostel, Home, and ‘Life-Rhythm’ for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall 19
10. Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children’s Lives in an IDP Camp 23
11. Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic 29
12. Section 2: Houses, Work, and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles
13. Constructing Middle-Class Milieus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Labor of Geselligkeit 36
14. Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara 45
15. Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe 49
16. Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa 56
17. Spinning Yarn: The Changing Place of Girls’ Work in Chinese and European History 62
18. Section 3: Construction, Demolition, Relocation
19. Subaltern Urbanism, or Dwelling and the Unhoused: Histories of Housing in the United States and India 70
20. Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe 80
21. The Changing Faces of a Village: Italian Migrant Workers’ Families in Lorraine 85
22. Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town 90
23. Closed Constructions: The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng 95
24. Section 4: The Power of Place: Space, Exclusions, Vulnerability
25. The Naqab/Nagev, Israel: Rebuilding Demolished Homes 102
26. Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities: Welfare ‘Homes’ in India 110
27. Land as a Site for Creating a Home: A Cautionary Tale from Botswana 115
28. Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies: The Coolie Pondok 120
29. The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town 125
30. Section 5: Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory
31. A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Work and Home in China 134
32. A House for a Missing Self: Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro 143
33. From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer 148
34. The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration 154
35. Section 6: Networks, Neighborhoods, Communities
36. ‘The Land of Boarding Houses’: Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945–1970 162
37. The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 170
38. Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad’s Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum 175
39. ‘Refugees Welcome’: German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees 181
40. Section 7: Being at Home in the World: Thinking with Houses and Homes
41. Making Home on the High Seas: Bulgarian Seafarers between Ship and Shore 190
42. Owning a Home in Bamako: To Be at Home after Death 199
43. From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Portraits: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes 204
44. Unhomely Afterlives: The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore 210
45. Reflections I
46. Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India 216
47. Reflections II
48. On Homes, Work, and Personhood: An Interview with Prabhu Mohapatra 226
49. On Photography and History: An Interview with Alf Lüdtke 234
50. Reflections III
51. Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphele’s A Bed Called Home 242
52. Contributor Biographies 253
53. Picture Credits 257
54. Index 259