{"product_id":"worlding-home-an-urban-ethnography-of-peacekeeping-camps-in-goma-drc-paperback-softback-9780253074485","title":"Worlding Home; An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC (Paperback \/ softback) 9780253074485","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWorlding Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, DRC\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaren Larsen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780253074485\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e274 pages, 23 b\u0026amp;w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By considering the camp as a social and urban formation, Larsen's fine-grained ethnography offers a key reading for scholars interested in the complex geographies of encampment and urbanity in the context of global humanitarianism.\" - Timothy Raeymaekers, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This beautifully written book contributes to and challenges efforts to reformulate global urban studies through a lively, engaged ethnography of placemaking among Global South peacekeepers.\" - Garth Myers, author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonialism and the Global South\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorlding Home\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the social, spatial, and architectural lifeworlds of United Nations (UN) peacekeepers accommodated in contingent camps throughout Goma, the capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From 2017 to 2019, more than twenty of these camps existed in and around the city, operating as sites of global outreach even as they generated new ways of being at home for peacekeepers and the peace-kept population.\u003cbr\u003e Through multisited ethnography and deep engagement with anthropological and urban theory, \u003ci\u003eWorlding Home\u003c\/i\u003e explores the entanglements of camp and city. Pushing against readings of Goma's peacekeeping camps as either more privileged enclaves or as outliers in camp studies when compared to refugee camps, author Maren Larsen argues for an understanding of \"camp\" as a process and practice. Between dwelling and journeying, \"here\" and \"there,\" the everyday lives and embodied practices of Goma's peacekeepers and Congolese civilians co-construct a \"city as elsewhere\" in which camping is a vital urban practice.\u003cbr\u003e By offering a more expansive understanding of how UN peacekeeping camps fit within Goma's urban fabric, \u003ci\u003eWorlding Home\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the intertwined socio-spatial processes of making a home, building a city, and re-imagining the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eDedication\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eAcronyms\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The City as Elsewhere\u003cbr\u003e1. Urbanization and Encampment: A Century in the City\u003cbr\u003e2. Through the Gates\u003cbr\u003e3. The (Extra-)Ordinary Spaces of Peacekeeping\u003cbr\u003e4. At Home in the Camp\u003cbr\u003e5. Being Global in Goma\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Camping the City\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52525708542232,"sku":"9780253074485","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/worlding-home-an-urban-ethnography-of-peacekeeping-camps-in-goma-drc-paperback-softback-9780253074485","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}