ABSTRACT
Home is a centre of integrative meaning from which we order our world – Home is produced by localising processes through which social life anchors itself in local contexts which are particular, bounded, immediate and participatory – Globalisation destabilises local contexts by disembedding relationships, practices and meaning and integrating them into global networks which substitute spatial extension for temporal depth – Liminality offers as an anthropologically based counterpoint to the concepts of participation and home – Localisation and globalisation operate as intersecting spirals, with the balance between them continually shifting over time and between places – The unprecedented levels of globalisation in modern society are accompanied by an ongoing quest for home, as a centre of integrative meaning, which manifests in forms as diverse as the celebration of domesticity, ethnic nationalism, religious revivalism and identity politics.
