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Home: The Foundations of Belonging (Hardcover)
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Home: The Foundations of Belonging (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical.
Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties
over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home,
through cutting immigration and 'taking back control'. Increasing
numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a
trend with implications for the future shape of families and
communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the
twentieth century - the nation-state and the suburban nuclear
household - are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal
and political aspirations. Home: The Foundations of Belonging puts
these issues into context by drawing on a range of disciplines to
offer a deep anthropological and historical perspective on home.
Beginning with a vision of modernity as characterised by both
spiralling liminality and an ongoing quest for belonging, it plumbs
the archaic roots of Western civilisation and assembles a wide body
of comparative anthropological evidence to illuminate the
foundations of a sense of home. Home is theorised as a stable
centre around which we organise both everyday routines and
perspectives on reality, bringing order to a chaotic world and
overcoming liminality. Constituted by a set of ongoing processes
which concentrate and embody meaning in intimate relationships,
everyday rituals and familiar places, a shared home becomes the
foundation for community and society. The Foundations of Belonging
thus elevates 'home' to the position of a foundational sociological
and anthropological concept at a moment when the crisis of
globalisation has opened the way to a revaluation of the local.
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