In this book, Powell examines the ways that identities are constructed in displacement
narratives based on cases of eminent domain, natural disaster, and civil unrest, attending …

This article engages in a reflection on the author's recently published book, The Politics of
Exile. Of central concern are questions surrounding how restrictions on writing constrain the …

Forced displacement has often involved the use of rhetoric, both by government institutions
and by people who struggle not only to survive displacement, but also to resist it. The author …

This century, and the past decade in particular, has been characterised by the massive
global displacement of people whose lives have been altered or destroyed by geopolitical …

Sorte nec ulla mea tristior esse potest.“There can be no fate sadder than my own”(Ovid 5.12:
6). Thus wrote the poet Ovid two millennia ago, when contemplating his exile from Rome, a …

Displacement is often framed as exceptional to a presumed norm of national sedentism.
However, displacement can be seen as an increasingly ubiquitous experience, deriving …

Displacement is one of the most tangible indicators of conflict. It represents a visible human
cost as individuals and families are physically uprooted from their homes and are forced to …

Popular discourse and advocacy efforts characterize homelessness as a social problem
bound by the present-centered concerns of physical affliction and material deprivation …

This book responds to the need to explore the multitude of interconnected factors causing
displacements that compel people to move within their homelands or traverse various …

This article examines means of coping adopted by defeated politicians to manage their
unexpected loss. In particular, we consider how they deploy deflection rhetoric to claim that …