ABSTRACT
In addition to elucidating the topicality of this book and outlining the central themes of each chapter, the Introduction identifies the book’s key features: in short, the book develops a radically innovative framework to grasp the phenomena related to the experiences of those who have to abandon their home spaces reluctantly, due to various types of upheavals. This framework is constructed with insights from diverse sources, disciplines, and perspectives, from history, language, philosophy, social sciences, ancient Greek tragedy and epics, etc.; it examines the formation of individual experiences in the context of societal narratives, perceptions, and expectations; it demonstrates the importance of epistemological astuteness in disentangling the complexities involved in conceptualising these phenomena; it argues for the privileging of human experience over detached theorisation of these situations. Overall, using the Aristotelian differentiation between two types of wellbeing, it critiques current mental health trends that predominantly (and, mostly, non-consciously) adhere to a hedonic understanding of wellbeing, while expounding that the framework that this book proposes, essentially, is eudaimonic.
