Enduring bonds of place
personhood and the loss of home
pp. 213-236
Abstract
This chapter seeks to examine not only the regional problems of population disruption in South-Eastern Europe, but also to set our concerns in an overall perspective, namely that of global migration. Nostalgia is not asynchronic; it needs to be related to the overall context of modernity, and indeed of post-modernity. In order to react appropriately to these contemporary demographic upheavals, we need to exercise empathy and imagine ourselves into the perceptions of people whose thinking about their place is rather different from our own. We are called upon to enter imaginatively into the degree of disruption experienced by individuals removed from the place where these relationships are the essence of being.
Publication details
Published in:
Raudvere Catharina (2018) Nostalgia, loss and creativity in south-east Europe: political and cultural representations of the past. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Pages: 213-236
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-71252-9_9
Full citation:
Hirschon Renée (2018) „Enduring bonds of place: personhood and the loss of home“, In: C. Raudvere (ed.), Nostalgia, loss and creativity in south-east Europe, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 213–236.