The politics of home
Subtitle: belonging and nostalgia in europe and the united states
By: Jan Willem Duyvendak
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780230293991
Subjects: Homesickness; Group identity; Nostalgia
Description: "This book examines ideas of 'home' of Americans and Western Europeans under the influence of the two major revolutions of our times: the gender revolution and increased mobility due to globalization. It analyzes how 'home' has been politicized, as well as alternative home-making strategies that aim to transcend the 'logic of identities'"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction; title: A Homesick World?; title: Why Feeling at Home Matters; title: Losing Home at Home: When Men and Women Feel More at Home at Work; title: New Ways of Home-making: Feeling at Home in the Community?; title: Feeling at Home in the Nation? Understanding Dutch Nostalgia; title: Conclusion: Inclusive Ways of Feeling at Home?; title: Bibliography.