Description
Book SynopsisDiscover different dimensions of the meaning of home across political, cultural, and geographic boundaries!
Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home brings a unique multidisciplinary, multicultural approach to address the interconnection of diverse experiences with the meaning of home. Filled with useful insights from respected authorities, this book shows you that the meaning of home can be incredibly varied, especially when viewed in the context of community psychology and social work. Explore the multiple facets of the meaning of home, and discover how our personal, professional, cultural, and political background contributes to how we envision or experience home.
From physical dwellings such as a convent or a prison, through political frameworks that confirm or challenge the status quo, on through the related meanings of home that cross cultural and geographical boundaries, Psychological, Political, and Cultural Meanings of Home pr
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Shifting Meanings of Home (Mechthild Hart and Miriam Ben-Yoseph)
- Facing Aliens Under Globalization: Changing Meanings of Home for Taiwanese Employers of Foreign Domestics (Shu-Ju Ada Cheng)
- Home as a Locus of Work and Career (Lisa K. Gundry)
- Convents as Homes (Enrique Alberto Arias)
- Where Love Flies Free: Women, Home, and Writing in Cook County Jail (Ann Folwell Stanford)
- In the Absence of Home: The Meaning of Homelessness (Susanne M. Dumbleton)
- Land of California?: The Ambiguities of Sweet Home Chicago (John Kimsey)
- The Long Road Home: Migratory Experience and the Construction of the Self (Frida Kerner Furman)
- Longing for Home: Displacement, Memory, and Identity (Miriam Ben-Yoseph)
- The Nomad at Home (Mechthild Hart)
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
