{"product_id":"worlding-home-maren-larsen-9780253074478","title":"Worlding Home: An Urban Ethnography of Peacekeeping Camps in Goma, Drc","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003eThrough 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\u003cbr\u003eBy 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maren Larsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0253074479\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780253074478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indiana University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/28\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Maren Larsen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795537711359,"sku":"9780253074478","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1dcc4cdb-6426-4c55-b493-9dfe7108c422.jpg?v=1744947911","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/worlding-home-maren-larsen-9780253074478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}