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| HOME AND PLACE IN A CHANGING WORLD: A RELATED REVIEW |
| XUE Xi-ming1, FENG Dan2 |
1. College of Tourism, Historical Culture, Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu 610041, China;
2. Tourism Management School & Cultural Industry and Cultural Geography Research Center, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China |
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Abstract Sense of home is a specific sense of place. As the concept of place is understood as root by humanist geographers, home is perceived to be embedded in place as well which is distinct from the social constriction view by critical geography. The connection to place such as familiarity, attachment, experience plays a significant role on sense of home. Losing, making and remaking home has been a considerable issue in modern society. The imagination of home is intertwined with both nostalgic and trauma. The meaning of place has been gradually degraded due the rapid globalization and thus creates the nostalgic memory of place, the home in particular. Returning home becomes a metaphor of escaping city and modernity. The other aspects of feeling of home, the trauma caused by natural disaster, is much more dramatic. This article investigates home by reviewing the literatures on gentrification, homeless, diaspora, and nature disaster respectively. Middle class create their new home during the process of gentrification while resulting in the displacement of local lower-class residents. Home landscape is power related. Displacement is experience not only by the people."Home but not home" is a common feeling caused by modernity. Living in diaspora has also been paid great attention by scholars who has interest on home, transnational migration in particular. The sense and experience of home by diasporic group diversified by place of origin gender and race which resulting in differentiated strategies of home-making. Nature hazard is another force of disconnecting people and place. Literature has been focused on the reconstruction of home and the struggle for place identity. Home is becoming an important research field in the western academic world. Despite of the abundant studies on home, the research of China is relatively rare though the concept of home occupies a vital position on traditional cultures of China.
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Received: 15 June 2015
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2016, Vol. 31 
