Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity
Examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilized both by new patterns of migration and bynew communicatioin technologies which routinely trangress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state.\ Morley is intellectually ecumenical yet erudite in his engagement with urban geography, postmodernism, media studies, nationalism, technology, and audiences in search for a way of talking about the relationship between identity, media,...
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Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, 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 recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.
List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction11Ideas of home162Heimat, modernity and exile313The gender of home564At home with the media865Broadcasting and the construction of the National Family1056The media, the city and the suburbs: urban and virtual geographies of exclusion1287Media, mobility and migrancy1498Postmodern, virtual and cybernetic geographies1719Borders and belongings: strangers and foreigners20410Cosmopolitics: boundary, hybridity and identity22511Postmodernism, post-structuralism and the politics of difference: at home in Europe?246Notes266Index331
