Liisa malkki biography of martin

          Liisa Malkki.

        1. Liisa Malkki.
        2. The rooting of peoples and the territorialization of national identity among scholars and refugees.
        3. Liisa Malkki.
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        5. Liisa H. Malkki is associate professor of cultural anthropology at Stanford University and author of Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and.

          6. Liisa Malkki....

          It was in the 1990s that I, as a beginning scholar doing research about identity, home and belonging, came across Liisa Malkki’s groundbreaking work, which provided me an in-depth understanding and theoretical frame for studying home and belonging in relation to refugees.

          Malkki, L.

          (1992) National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity Among Scholars and Refugees, Cultural Anthropology 7 (1): 24–44.

          Malkki, L. (1995) Refugees and Exile: From ‘Refugee Studies’ to the National Order of Things, Annual Reviews Anthropology 24: 495–523.

          Malkki’s profound critique of what she referred to as the “national order of things” in 1992 lays a strong foundation for rethinking the implications of equalizing home with being rooted in a place, both metaphorically and morally.

          Furthermore, she examines the analytical consequences of a territorial approach to identity and home for categories of people considered displaced and uprooted. Metaphorical