The Ethnographical Essay: Cine Club in the Refugee Camp – the Story of a Double Empowerment

• Authors: Izabela Wagner

Abstracts

EN

The article is an ethnographic essay, which is based on a long-lasting fieldwork conducted in an Italian refugee center. The first part contains basic information on the research project, as well as the presentation of the phenomenon – empowerment – which is the axis of this text. The second part has an innovative form: on the canvas of films watched with refugees, I am conducting the analysis of problems raised by participants.

Keywords

EN

refugees; camp; empowerment; ethnography; films

• Publisher: Collegium Civitas
• Journal: Zoon Politikon
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 186-230

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Izabela Wagner

• Collegium Civitas w Warszawie
• CNRS, Paris

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Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/2543408XZOP.19.010.11593

Biblioteka Nauki

2046457