Defining A Relative Space.

Home is a multidimensional concept, and we acknowledge the presence of and need for multidisciplinary research in the field. . It raises the question of whether or not home is a place, a space, a feeling, a practice, or an active state of being in the world. While memories of home are often nostalgic and sentimental, home is not simply recalled or experienced in positive ways. Home touches our personal lives centrally.

A question arises in my mind: “Is home a place, a space, a feeling, a practice, or an active state of being in the world?” I feel it is variously described as conflated with or related to house, family, haven, self, gender, and journeying.

According to theorist Peter Somerville, “Home is not just a matter of feelings and lived experience but also of cognition and intellectual construction; people may have a sense of home even though they have no experience or memory of it. . . . We cannot know what home’really’ is outside of these ideological structures.”