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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Epigraph
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
1 The many faces of home
Thinking about home
Appearance vs. reality
Defining ‘home’
Understanding home in different languages
Attitudes towards home
Parochialism and cosmopolitanism
Home as a restless concept
2 The importance of place
Place and the organization of life
The home place
Embeddedness
Placelessness and beyond
Landscapes, ecosystems, and bioregions
Cities as places
Place and a sense of wholeness
3 Dwelling and dwellings
What dwelling means
Cave, sweet cave
The shape of home
Traces of what once was
Many sorts of dwellings make one world
Wanderers
Outlooks and inlooks
Homes as dwellings
4 Remembering, imagining, and other mindwork
Reviving the past
Nostalgia
Returning home
Homes as symbolic expressions
The dream home
Home psychology in retrospect
5 People, objects, and identity
Identity and home
House and home
Home as people who matter
Home as a material environment
Living with objects
Home and possessions: two examples from the Holocaust
The power of objects
6 Home politics
Politics as inescapable
Public and private life
The home and beyond
Negotiating home life
Changing roles
Domestic abuse and misery
Colonization
Fighting for the homeland
7 Homelessness and uprootedness
General considerations about homelessness
Destitution
Homelessness as a global concern
The dispossessed
International migrants
Modern culture unmoored
An afterthought
8 The future of home
Through a glass darkly
Some constants
Positive/aspirational concepts of home
Home as a physical place or location
General functions of home
Living in a world of rapid change
In pursuit of stability
Beyond home?
Alternative living arrangements
Electronically enhanced homes
The Earth as home
Every end a new beginning
References
Further reading
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Index
Social Media
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