Tag: railway child

• When I was at home, I was in a better place

  I am a railway child -or, more specifically, I am the child of a railway father. And as a result the family was transferred to a new location every few years; I have lived in almost every province of Canada at one time or other, so home for me was always a shifting target -a…

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  September 11, 2019

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  anthropology, Cheryl Mattingly, ethnography, home, homelessness, Johannes Lenhard, Mary Douglas, Max Planck Cambridge Centre for Ethics Economy and Social Change, Michel Foucault, railway child, spaces, The Paradox of Hope