Sense(s) of Heimat : plurilocal self-location and emotional geographies through the lens of international migration / Jessica Andel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andel, Jessica, author.

Series:

BestMasters.

BestMasters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belonging (Social psychology).

National characteristics, German.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 pages)

Place of Publication:

Wiesbaden, Germany : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Andel, Jessica Sense(s) of Heimat

ISBN:

9783658389857