Home: The Foundations of Belonging
Paul O'Connor, "Home: The Foundations of Belonging "
English | ISBN: 0367332825 | 2019 | 198 pages | EPUB | 853 KB
English | ISBN: 0367332825 | 2019 | 198 pages | EPUB | 853 KB
Questions of home and belonging have never been more topical. Populist politicians in both Europe and America play on anxieties over globalisation by promising to reconstitute the national home, through cutting immigration and ‘taking back control’. Increasing numbers of young people are unable to afford home-ownership, a trend with implications for the future shape of families and communities. The dominant conceptualisations of home in the twentieth century – the nation-state and the suburban nuclear household – are in crisis, yet they continue to shape our personal and political aspirations.
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