Tuesday 7 March 2023 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Mond Building Seminar Room
About
Orhon Myadar
University of Arizona
Nomadic Imaginaries and Performative Realities
Orhon Myadar is an Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Development and Environment at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on geographical understandings of place, displacement and forced mobility.
She will discuss her recent book, Mobility and Displacement (Routledge 2022). In her book, Myadar discusses the production and consumption of the trope of nomadism that has blurred the line between fantasy and reality in representations of Mongolia. Myadar seeks to contest both outsiders’ projections of Mongolia and the self-objectifying tropes Mongolians routinely deploy to represent their country as a land of nomads.
Myadar will also present her new research work that similarly explores reductive representations of globally-displaced people as refugees and how this generalizing trope and imaginary produces and sustains essentialist understandings of those who are displaced and seeking refuge.
This seminar will be recorded. Please email miasu-admin@socanth.cam.ac.uk to receive the link