The Affective Creation of 'Home': Videos of the Patron Saint's Fiesta within the Transnational Context of Mexico/USA (A05)

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258523721

This project investigates, from a visual-anthropological perspective, how actors in Mexico and the US negotiate transnational belonging affectively by means of patron saint's fiesta videos. Research will be conducted on the affective relationality in the context of media practices and audiovisual representations as well as the resulting emotional repertoires. The project's focus on 'home'-making practices will provide an innovative theoretical and methodical contribution to the affective and emotional dimension of migration and transnational community building.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1171: Affective Societies: Dynamics of Social Coexistence in Mobile Worlds
• Applicant Institution: Freie Universität Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Ingrid Kummels