Tag: Heimat

Free Download Sense(s) of Heimat: Plurilocal Self-Location and Emotional Geographies through the Lens of International Migration (BestMasters) By Jessica Andel
2022 | 120 Pages | ISBN: 3658389842 | PDF | 1 MB
The German notion of ‘Heimat’ is highly subjective, ambiguous and historically charged. Senses of belonging and identity associated with Heimat render the concept vulnerable to appropriation and instrumentalization by different political forces. Thereby, a static and exclusive understanding of Heimat is often depicted. This book drafts a counternarrative to demystify the contested concept. On the one hand, Heimat is conceptualized as spatial through emotional-geographical approaches to human-place relations. And on the other hand, the concept is placed in a global context through the perspective of international migration. The author contributes to the understanding of Heimat as an emotional map of self-location. This subjective map is neither purely static nor dynamic – it is characterized by simultaneities of opposing processes.

Free Download K. Molly O’Donnell, Renate Bridenthal, Nancy Reagin, "The Heimat Abroad: The Boundaries of Germanness"
English | 2005 | pages: 337 | ISBN: 0472030671, 0472114913 | PDF | 0,9 mb
Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furthermore, the history of Germany is inextricably tied to Germans outside the homeland who formed new communities that often retained their Germanness. Emigrants, including political, economic, and religious exiles such as Jewish Germans, fostered a nostalgia for home, which, along with longstanding mutual ties of family, trade, and culture, bound them to Germany.