Publication details
Domov a jiná místa/ne-místa formování kulturních identit
| Title in English | Home and the Other Places/Non-Places Shaping the Cultural Identities |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sociální studia |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Sociology, demography |
| Keywords | home; identity; nomadism; place; transnationalism |
| Description | The first part of the article follows the recent anthropological critique of the widely held assumption that links people to territorial roots. In this sense, cultural identities have to be mediated by particular places, nevertheless these places does not necessary have to have a character of local cultural communities. Current conditions of deterritorialization are producing cultural identities that link people to homes and homelands that often have no territorial base. The following part makes the outlined critique deeper by claiming that cultural identities are also mediated by places that do not have a character of homes or even deterritorialized homelands. The theoretical precondition of this claim is explicated by a classificatory model that distinguishes between four types of life in motion – exile, immigration, pilgrimage, and vagabondage – and by this means establishes an analytical fairness between perspectives of sedentarism and nomadism. |
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