The nomad at home.
This essay addresses issues related to leaving and recreating a home from the perspective of different kinds of movements, transformations, and diasporic ways of living. Global restructurings in the wake of neoliberal economic developments provide the main background for a discussion of contemporary global upheavals and displacements, and the concomitant mix of old and new understandings of border rossing, multiple or hybrid identities, and neo/colonialism. The figure of the nomad is at the center of these discussions. The nomad is described as someone who carries home as an essential psychological belonging, and who can re-create home in diverse places, anywhere.
Hart
Mechthild
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School for New Learning, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, 60604, USA. mhart@ depaul.edu
D000069:Acculturation; D001290:Attitude; D006703:Ill-Housed Persons / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D012931:Social Environment; D014171:Transients and Migrants / Q000523:psychology*