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Title: | In search of belonging: an analytical framework |
Authors: | Antonsich, Marco |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | Blackwell Publishing Ltd (© the author) |
Citation: | ANTONSICH, M., 2010. Searching for belonging: an analytical framework. Geography Compass, 4 (6), pp.644-659. |
Abstract: | Belonging is a notion both vaguely defined and ill-theorized. Scholars in various social disciplines often take this notion for granted, as if its meaning is somewhat self-explanatory. Others tend to equate it with the notion of identity, citizenship, or both. By relying on a critical reading of an extensive literature across academic disciplines, this study aims to offer an analytical framework for the study of belonging. I argue that belonging should be analyzed both as a personal, intimate, feeling of being ‘at home’ in a place (place-belongingness) and as a discursive resource that constructs, claims, justifies, or resists forms of socio-spatial inclusion/exclusion (politics of belonging). The risk of focusing only on one of these two dimensions is to fall in the trap of either a socially de-contextualized individualism or an all-encompassing social(izing) discourse. The open question is whether the increasing cultural and ethnic diversification of contemporary societies can lead to the formation of communities of belonging beyond communities of identity. |
Description: | This is the accepted version of the article, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00317.x |
Version: | Accepted for publication |
DOI: | 10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00317.x |
URI: | https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16126 |
Publisher Link: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-8198.2009.00317.x |
Appears in Collections: | Published Articles (Geography)
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