Home in transition : the cultural construction of Heimat

"This book presents an integrative perspective on home or Heimat showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live. This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on what home is and can be from different viewpoints. The chapters invite the reader to face...

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Other Authors Watzlawik, Meike, 1975- (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2023]
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Belonging (Social psychology)
Social integration.
Home > Social aspects.
Psychology > Social Psychology.
Social, group or collective psychology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806601424
DOI10.1108/9798887303284
Physical Description1 online resource (266 pages) : illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editor's preface - feeling at home means building something: Human dignity in liminal settings / Jaan Valsiner
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. What is home? Facets of the German construct heimat and insights on what heimat is / Roman Gallus
  • Chapter 2. Commentary - do we need the concept of heimat at all? Home from the perspectives of the others / Lenssa Mohammed
  • Chapter 3. Beyond home: Indigenous women defend the territorio-tierra in guatemala / Charlotta Sophie Sippel
  • Chapter 4. Commentary: Women, knowledge, and the liberation of the territory / Maria Bautista Hernandez
  • Chapter 5. Homeless in one's homeland / Emma Weiler
  • Chapter 6. Commentary: Grasping the Berlin homeless support system: A view from within / Marta Felicja Reddemann and Svenja Ketelsen
  • Chapter 7. Without a home: Waiting in refugee camps / Ido Nahmias
  • Chapter 8. Interview: You can make something good anywhere, if you get the opportunities. Hussam mashfez
  • Chapter 9. Interview: I am not a number, i am a human being, and i have a story / Mahmoud Almizel
  • Chapter 10. Making home: The experiences of volunteers in a program for befriending refugees and asylum seekers in Germany / Anne Büttcher
  • Chapter 11. Commentary: Challenges and potentials in mentorships: The relevance of close and professional support / Anna Stammnitz
  • Chapter 12. What is home when it is never permanent? The meaning of home for a working nomad in a globalized world / Marieke Gattermann
  • Chapter 13. Commentary: A country as anchor--but there is still more in the cards / Thomas
  • Chapter 14. Negotiating home: Finding home between two countries / Simone Machado Braz
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion--home: From the hypergeneralized to the dimensional level and beyond / Meike Watzlawik. About the Contributors.

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