@article{Parent_2022, title={Anti-sedentarism and the anthropology of forced migration}, volume={46}, url={https://journal.fi/suomenantropologi/article/view/110269}, DOI={10.30676/jfas.v46i2.110269}, abstractNote={<p>Anthropologists of forced migration have advanced unique perspectives exploring identity and community as they relate to space. With its critique of naturalized conceptions of rootedness, boundedness, and territorialization, anti-sedentarism stands as an important conceptual development emanating from this work. And while expressions such as ‘sedentary bias’ and ‘sedentarist thinking’ are found throughout this body of literature, anti-sedentarism <em>per se </em>has not received a proper treatment of its disciplinary underpinnings and intellectual horizons. This article identifies some of the genealogical traces of anti-sedentarism, discussing it through anthropological contributions in both the cultural and mobility turns. Informed by the work of anthropologists of forced migration, a working definition of anti-sedentarism is provided, followed by a critical discussion on key debates related to this concept. A selection of migrant and refugee ethnographies produced during the mobility turn (1990s onward) is then used to explore the extent which anti-sedentarism has translated to the empirical work of anthropologists and ethnographers engaging with displacement, dispossession, and deterritorialization.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society}, author={Parent, Nicolas}, year={2022}, month={Apr.}, pages={10–29} }