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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'.

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• List of illustrations (p. xvii)
• Acknowledgements (p. xix)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• A place to start from (p. 1)
• Heim and Heimat (p. 2)
• Microwaving the macro theory (p. 4)
• Disciplinarity: multi, inter or post? (p. 6)
• Where the global meets the local (p. 9)
• Travelling and dwelling (p. 12)
• 1 Ideas of home (p. 16)
• Origins and belongings (p. 16)
• The domestic home: space, rules and comfort (p. 18)
• Homes and houses (p. 19)
• The history of home in urban space: a story of separations (p. 21)
• The social distribution of privacy and comfort (p. 22)
• The symbolism of home (p. 24)
• Privatisation and domesticity (p. 25)
• Homelessness in a home-centred culture (p. 26)
• 2 Heimat, modernity and exile (p. 31)
• At home in the Heimat (p. 31)
• Rootlessness as disorder (p. 33)
• The road to the nation (p. 34)
• Defending the national home (p. 37)
• Sedentarism, mobility and the hearth (p. 39)
• Geographical monogamy and promiscuity (p. 41)
• At home in modernity (p. 42)
• The migrant's suitcase (p. 44)
• Language, recognition and silence (p. 47)
• Exile: living in the past (p. 49)
• The plight of the Yugo-zombies (p. 50)
• Migrants' homes and alien environments (p. 51)
• Transnational migration: Australian Italians (p. 52)
• Home is where you leave it (p. 54)
• 3 The gender of home (p. 56)
• Deconstructing domesticity: family propaganda (p. 56)
• Masculine premises, gendered anxieties (p. 59)
• Domesticity, modernity and modernism (p. 60)
• The housewife, the home and the Heimat: woman as home (p. 63)
• Gender, mobility and visibility (p. 64)
• Home, tradition and gender (p. 65)
• The gender of the modern public (p. 67)
• The place of the housewife (p. 70)
• The gendering of global space (p. 73)
• Gender essentialism? (p. 75)
• Heimat's darker shadows: domesticity, dirt and femininity (p. 78)
• The heimlich, the heimisch and the unheimlich (p. 79)
• The uncanny art object (p. 80)
• 4 At home with the media (p. 86)
• Domestic media/mediated domesticity (p. 86)
• TV in the modern home (p. 87)
• The media and the construction of domestic routine (p. 89)
• Negotiating difference in the family (p. 91)
• The gendered forms of media consumption (p. 93)
• The end of gender? (p. 95)
• Continuing divisions of gender (p. 96)
• Boundaries and technologies: communities on the phone wires (p. 97)
• Television in the Outback (p. 99)
• Virtual and actual travel (p. 100)
• Bounded realms: household and nation (p. 101)
• Virtual borders, virtual homes (p. 102)
• 5 Broadcasting and the construction of the National Family (p. 105)
• The mediated nation as symbolic home (p. 105)
• Participatory models of the media: from ideology to sociability (p. 108)
• Beyond the singular public sphere? (p. 113)
• The masculine public (p. 114)
• The whiteness of the public sphere (p. 118)
• White broadcasting in the UK (p. 120)
• Towards a multi-ethnic public sphere? (p. 124)
• Transnational and diasporic public spheres (p. 125)
• 6 The media, the city and the suburbs: urban and virtual geographies of exclusion (p. 128)
• Television as a suburban medium (p. 128)
• The suburbs: home for whom? (p. 129)
• Speaking up for the (gendered) suburbs (p. 130)
• Other suburbs (p. 131)
• The ecology of fear: white flight (p. 133)
• Suburbanism - the politics of withdrawal (p. 138)
• Geodemographics: "Where you live is who you are" (p. 140)
• The purification of space (p. 141)
• Matter out of place (p. 142)
• Problematic smells and signs (p. 145)
• The writing on the wall (p. 146)
• 7 Media, mobility and migrancy (p. 149)
• Exclusion, withdrawal and mobile privatisation (p. 149)
• Virtual and physical alterity (p. 151)
• Worlds in motion: moving images and deterritorialised viewers (p. 153)
• Migration and representation - symbols of impurity, rituals of purification (p. 155)
• Spaces of difference: migrants, residential space and media representations in France (p. 156)
• Incarceration in the banlieues (p. 159)
• Territorial symbols (p. 161)
• Geographies and genres of representation (p. 163)
• Beyond the Orientalist image (p. 165)
• German Turks? Auslander and others (p. 167)
• 8 Postmodern, virtual and cybernetic geographies (p. 171)
• Virtual geographies (p. 171)
• (Non) place, home and identity (p. 173)
• Bifocal visions and telesthesia (p. 174)
• Mediated strangers (p. 177)
• Fellowmen, compatriots and contemporaries (p. 179)
• The time of the Other (p. 180)
• Screening the Other (p. 182)
• The geography of sympathy (p. 184)
• The regime of the fictive "We" (p. 185)
• The boundaries of cyberspace: access to the Net (p. 186)
• Rhetorics of the technological sublime? (p. 188)
• Community lite and communitarianism (p. 190)
• Postmodern geographies: a sceptical view (p. 191)
• The power geometry of "connexity" (p. 196)
• New geographies and differential mobilities (p. 200)
• Tourists and vagabonds (p. 201)
• 9 Borders and belongings: strangers and foreigners (p. 204)
• Global culture: a borderless world? (p. 204)
• Unsettling motion (p. 206)
• Citizenship and belonging (p. 209)
• Pilgrims and nomads: from (rapid) journeys to Generalised Arrival (p. 210)
• Continuing difficulties with differences (p. 211)
• Island boundaries (p. 214)
• Boundary, identity and conflict: social and psychological mechanisms (p. 216)
• Homely racism (p. 217)
• The racialisation of space (p. 220)
• Nationalism, narcissism and minor differences (p. 220)
• Kristeva: the problem of "the foreigner" (p. 222)
• Domesticating alterity (p. 223)
• 10 Cosmopolitics: boundary, hybridity and identity (p. 225)
• Cosmopolitics and connexity: the new condition of the world? (p. 225)
• The migrant in limbo (p. 226)
• The value of mobility: home truths? (p. 228)
• The historical roots of "nomadology" (p. 230)
• Discrepant and variable cosmopolitanisms (p. 230)
• Hybridity talk (p. 232)
• The commodification of differences (p. 234)
• Anti-anti-essentialism (p. 236)
• Differential hybridities (p. 237)
• Nationalism and conjuncturalism (p. 239)
• Nation, community and household: the fuzzy logics of solidarity (p. 242)
• 11 Postmodernism, post-structuralism and the politics of difference: at home in Europe? (p. 246)
• Nostalgia, belonging and fear (p. 246)
• Cultural fundamentalism and Homo Xenophobicus (p. 247)
• Beyond identity politics? (p. 250)
• Community, difference and Heimat (p. 253)
• Europe: living on the ethnic faultlines (p. 257)
• The making of EuroCulture (p. 259)
• Europe as an unresolved issue (p. 261)
• Fortress Europe (p. 262)
• The Other within (p. 263)
• Notes (p. 266)
• Index (p. 331)

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CHOICE Review

Morley provides a progressive notion of home and community that does not depend on the exclusion of all forms of otherness. Initially, mass media (especially television) furthered the domestication of the home and intensified the symbolic construction of imagined national identities. Geographically dispersed families huddled ritualistically around the television and were provided with a shared sense of reality that informed them as to who they were and who they were not. But contemporary articulations of home and nation are challenged by an increasingly borderless world in which the global meets the local; where people's greater mobility and cultural consumption contribute to their suspiciousness of cultural differences and yet significantly increase their awareness of a broader variety of options from which to construct their identity. Ultimately, social harmony is dependent upon individuals recognizing that they cannot escape "cultural compression" and "enforced proximity" and embracing a cosmopolitan notion of home, which emphasizes the value of "alterity" and "cultural reciprocity." Despite bogging down at times in the postmodernist jargon of cultural studies, Morley has effectively integrated micro and macro levels of analysis, providing both an exhaustive review of the literature and an informative study of media, identity, and globalization in the 21st century. Graduate students and faculty. G. B. Osborne Augustana University College