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Sense(s) of Heimat: Plurilocal Self-Location and Emotional Geographies through the Lens of International Migration 1st ed. 2022 Edition
Author(s): Jessica Andel (Author)
- Publisher: Springer Spektrum
- Publication Date: August 23, 2022
- Edition: 1st ed. 2022
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: 3658389842
- ISBN-13: 9783658389840
Book Description
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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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.
About the AuthorJessica Andel is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme “Human Geography: Globalisation, Media and Culture”. Since November 2019, she has been working as a student assistant on the Human Geography-team at the Institute of Geography of Johannes Gutenberg University.
About the AuthorJessica Andel is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme “Human Geography: Globalisation, Media and Culture”. Since November 2019, she has been working as a student assistant on the Human Geography-team at the Institute of Geography of Johannes Gutenberg University.
About the Author
Jessica Andel is currently enrolled in the Master’s programme “Human Geography: Globalisation, Media and Culture”. Since November 2019, she has been working as a student assistant on the Human Geography-team at the Institute of Geography of Johannes Gutenberg University.
