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ISBN 10: 0230293999
ISBN 13: 9780230293991
Author: Jan Willem Duyvendak
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'.
1 A Homesick World?
Introduction
The universalists: places without particular meaning
The particularists: places without universal meaning
Place attachments in a globalizing world
Sociological attachments
The United States: restless and rootless?
Western Europe: nostalgia for national homogeneity
2 Why Feeling at Home Matters
Introduction
Feeling at home in particular places
Feeling at home in generic places
Beyond the particular and the generic: the symbolic
Meanings of home
The emotion of feeling at home
3 Losing Home at Home: When Men and Women Feel More at Home at Work
Introduction
Home as hell; home as haven/heaven?
The marginalization of home in the US
The Netherlands: the part- time society
Scandinavian welfare states
Home, what home?
4 New Ways of Home- making: Feeling at Home in the Community?
Introduction
From hell to haven: home- making by people with psychiatric and intellectual disabilities
From hell to heaven: moving to the Castro, a gay neighborhood in the making
Conclusion: the promises and pitfalls of communities
5 Feeling at Home in the Nation? Understanding Dutch Nostalgia
Introduction
A multicultural paradise?
The Dutch cultural consensus (and some dissensus)
The culturalization of citizenship
(Not) feeling at home in the Netherlands
America, the homeland?
6 Conclusion: Inclusive Ways of Feeling at Home?
Introduction
Two types of nostalgia: reflective and restorative
Four spheres of belonging
Feeling at home ‘light’
Notes
Bibliography
Tags: Jan Willem Duyvendak, Politics, Belonging
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