Home Territories : Media, Mobility and Identity

ISBN-13: 9780415157650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 368 str.

David Morley

Opis

This work examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilized both by patterns of migration and by communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyzes the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness and 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 debates about the territorialization of culture.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Ideas of Home 2. Heimat, Modernity and Exile 3. The Gender of Home 4. At Home With The Media 5. Broadcasting and the Construction of the National Family 6. The Media, The City and The Suburbs: Urban and Virtual Geographies of Exclusion 7. Media, Mobility and Migrancy 8. Postmodern, Virtual and Cybernetic Geographies 9. Borders and Belongings: Strangers and Foreigners 10. Cosmopolitics: Boundary, Hybridity and Identity 11. Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and the Politics of Difference: At Home in Europe?

O autorze

David Morley