ABSTRACT

Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.

chapter |15 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|15 pages

Ideas of Home

chapter 2|25 pages

Heimat, Modernity and Exile

chapter 3|30 pages

The Gender of Home

chapter 4|19 pages

At Home With the Media

chapter 6|21 pages

The Media, the City and the Suburbs

Urban and virtual geographies of exclusion

chapter 7|22 pages

Media, Mobility and Migrancy

chapter 9|21 pages

Borders and Belongings

Strangers and foreigners

chapter 10|21 pages

Cosmopolitics

Boundary, hybridity and identity

chapter 11|20 pages

Postmodernism, Post-Structuralism and the Politics of Difference

At home in Europe?