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Godbole<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></P>
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align="center"><B><DEFANGED_SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">The making of an
immigrant home<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></P>
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align="center"><B><DEFANGED_SPAN style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US">Representation and
improvisation of inherited cultural landscapes in immigrant
homes<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></B></P>
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Year="2005"><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB>Friday, 03 June 2005</DEFANGED_SPAN></DEFANGED_st1:date><DEFANGED_SPAN
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</DEFANGED_SPAN></DEFANGED_SPAN><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt">PUKAR Office,
2<SUP>nd</SUP> Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, </DEFANGED_SPAN><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB
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lang=EN-GB style="mso-bidi-font-size: 11.5pt"> Tel:
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lang=EN-GB>Overlays of political borders, contested lands and cultural
landscapes often complicate and blur definitions of home. In culturally
diverse, cosmopolitan cities, immigrant families continually reinterpret the
fundamental question, “What is home?” As these families define their
physical and cultural ‘selves’ in their adopted country, we witness the
transformation of ordinary, mundane places into socio-culturally complex
neighborhoods and cities.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-GB>This on-going study examines how immigrants use visual elements to
reflect their intrinsic values and philosophies and reinforce the idea of
‘home’. It also explores how ‘inherited’ cultural landscapes influence,
shape and define homemaking sensitivities of immigrant
families.<o:p></o:p></DEFANGED_SPAN></P>
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DEFANGED_style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB>Nandita Godbole
</DEFANGED_SPAN></I></STRONG><I DEFANGED_style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB>has
a Masters degree in Botany (</DEFANGED_SPAN></I><DEFANGED_st1:place><DEFANGED_st1:PlaceType><I
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Architecture (</DEFANGED_SPAN></I><DEFANGED_st1:place><DEFANGED_st1:PlaceType><I
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DEFANGED_style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><DEFANGED_SPAN lang=EN-GB>, Urbana-Champaign). She is
currently an independent researcher and her areas of interest include public
space usage and sacred landscapes. </DEFANGED_SPAN></I><DEFANGED_SPAN
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