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Exploring Home: Real and Imagined Structures of Western Modernity

This text delves into the complexities of 'home' in Western society, contrasting individual and collective perceptions. It questions ownership, safety, and cultural identity, reflecting personal anecdotes and social analyses. The concept of home is explored through memory, cultural discourse, and the interplay of geography and selfhood.

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Exploring Home: Real and Imagined Structures of Western Modernity

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  1. HOME: STRUCTURES REAL AND IMAGINED Ellen Rovner, Ph.D. and Hillary Waterman, Ph.D.

  2. “Home is a place, when you return, they have to take you in.” Robert Frost BUT IS IT???

  3. Western Modernity

  4. Where? Who? How?

  5. “I love Chelsea; it’s in my kishkes. What can I say?” • “It’s like one, big family in Chelsea.” • “I feel comfortable here in a way I don’t feel in other places.”

  6. Home is...a Jersey Girl “She’s everything I remember about being in New York, which is reminding me, day by day, of everything I remember about myself...It works out pretty good.”

  7. I do...Do you? Frank-- Evelyn-- “We’re going to get so financially entangled that there will be no question of ever getting a divorce!” “The house is my only asset!”

  8. Naked Absence(Jonathan Boyarin 1995)

  9. Will my car be safe there?

  10. Whose Home is it, anyway?

  11. “Yeah, these Rednecks took it from the Indians and we’re taking it from them...so fuck ‘em.” Vs. “It’s getting so you can walk from one end of this island to the other stepping on nothing but ‘No Trespassing’ signs.”

  12. Lourdes

  13. Political Action

  14. “Neighbors might be nice people, but you don’t know who they are.” “If you try here in America, you can make it.”

  15. Conclusion • Home is both individual and collective—more than geography or a particular locus  • Ongoing process of construction and deconstruction of meanings and associations • Extension of the self--manifested in memory (individual and collective), food, discourses of class and ethnicity and the opposition of  Home vs. Non-home 

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