Sense(s) of Heimat

Sense(s) of Heimat
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 9783658389857
ISBN-13 : 3658389850
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Book Synopsis Sense(s) of Heimat by : Jessica Andel

Download or read book Sense(s) of Heimat written by Jessica Andel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German notion of ‘Heimat’ is highly subjective, ambiguous and historically charged. Senses of belonging and identity associated with Heimat render the concept vulnerable to appropriation and instrumentalization by different political forces. Thereby, a static and exclusive understanding of Heimat is often depicted. This book drafts a counternarrative to demystify the contested concept. On the one hand, Heimat is conceptualized as spatial through emotional-geographical approaches to human-place relations. And on the other hand, the concept is placed in a global context through the perspective of international migration. The author contributes to the understanding of Heimat as an emotional map of self-location. This subjective map is neither purely static nor dynamic - it is characterized by simultaneities of opposing processes.


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