ISSN:
1470–2266
,
1470–2266
Language:
English
Publ. der Quelle:
, 2007
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,1
DDC:
300
Keywords:
Heimat
;
Mobilität
;
transnationale Fachkräfte
;
Akteur-Netzwerk Theorie
;
home
;
mobility
;
transnational professionals
;
actor-network theory
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
How do professionals constitute their homes under conditions of extensive mobility? The study is based on interviews with professionals working for an international organization who are chronically mobile. Despite their high mobility, they describe little difficulty constructing homes. Home can best be understood here not as a fixed location, but as a set of relationships, to both humans and non-humans. There are elements of spatial proximity, but also of distance, and homes may be defined by both objects present and excluded. They may be a focal point, but at the same time part of a heterogeneous network that spans localities as well as binds past and present. Home is therefore territorially defined, but only as an extended network rather than as a bounded location.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100225477
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