Connected Communities: Imagining the Place of Home

该项目将研究在日益全球化的世界中家庭与互联社区之间的关系。基本的概念工作的基础研究是理解的类别的家既是一个深刻的直觉，普遍意义的概念和一个多方面的和难以捉摸的。无论他们的情况，文化或宗教信仰或种族，许多人都有一个大致相似的，广阔的家的想法。客观地定义它往往是有问题的，但有一个家的感觉是什么，并能够声称它意味着什么，是我们的想法是什么是人类的基本。对家的理解和再现涉及到想象力的活动。家是一个归属和熟悉的地方。它可能被认为是家人和朋友所在的地方，或者某人长大的地方，或者他们渴望返回的地方。家庭和社区的概念常常是同义词。社区可以被视为家庭和家园的延伸，其中一些关键的价值观，标志和家庭的联系仍然很重要，如宗教，食物，语言，种族，个人和社区的历史，该项目涉及在快速变化的世界中将情感反应与物理空间和环境，物质文化，国家和后国家的更具体的想法相结合。通过提出和发展关键问题的答案，我们将有助于对归属感，身份，公民身份和社会的紧迫国家和国际挑战的新分析。流动性的体验如何将一个特定的家的概念转变为一个以多样性和多元化为特征的家？在这里，我们考虑想象不止一个地方作为家。在后国家秩序中，家是否越来越成为一个神话般的场所，属于一个怀旧的想象和静态的过去，那里的东西更好，更安全，更熟悉？我们问是否有可能回家。在科技日益发达的新自由主义世纪，什么样的地方才是家？在这里，我们反思技术对我们家庭体验的转变。家与流亡、家与流散、家与迁徙之间的关系是什么？我们考虑无家可归的过程和无家可归的条件，并要求一个新的家园。想象力在构思家庭与社区之间的关系方面发挥着什么作用？家庭作为公民可以投射自己并在公正和公平的社会中塑造想象中的生活的地方，是否继续拥有充满活力的未来？在这里，我们考虑想象力的行为的变革的可能性。艺术和人文科学可以为社会科学的现有研究做出重大贡献。通过关注想象力和表征（文学研究的关键类别）在家庭中的作用，我们可以更有效、更细致地理解社区如何看待自己，如何创造和维持创造性的联系，如何培养最深刻的情感元素。从这些角度理解和调查社区，可以加深对社区相互关联性的认识。它提请注意家作为一个想象和想象的范畴与再现和文学研究本身的想象性质之间的关系。它还有助于分析那些不断变化的紧张和分裂点，这些点往往可以通过强大的想象力最好地表达和解释。

The project will investigate the relationship between home and Connected Communities within an increasingly globalised world. Fundamental to the conceptual work underlying the research is the understanding that the category of home is both a profoundly intuitive, universally significant concept and a multi-faceted and elusive one. Whatever their situations, cultural or religious beliefs or ethnicities, many people have a broadly similar, expansive idea of home. Defining it objectively is often problematic, yet having a sense of what home is, and being able to lay claim to what it means, is fundamental to our idea of what it is to be human. Understanding and representing home involves an act of the imagination. Home is a place of belonging and familiarity. It might be conceived of as the place where family and friends are, or where someone grew up, or where they long to return. Frequently, ideas of home and of community are almost synonymous. Communities can be seen as an extension of family and home in which some of the key values, markers and affiliations of home remain significant, such as religion, food, languages, ethnicity, individual and community histories.The project involves mingling affective responses with more specific ideas of physical space and environment, material culture, nation and postnation in a rapidly changing world. By asking and developing answers to key questions we will contribute new analyses of pressing national and international challenges about belonging, identity, citizenship and society. How does the experience of mobility transform a particular idea of home into one characterised by multiplicity and plurality? Here we consider imagining more than one place as home. Is home increasingly a mythic site in a postnational order, belonging to a nostalgically imagined and static past in which things were better, safer and more familiar? We ask whether it is ever possible to return home. What kind of a place is home in an increasingly technologised neoliberal twenty-first century? Here we reflect upon the transformations technology makes to our experiences of home. What is the relationship between home and exile, home and diaspora, or home and migrancy? We consider processes of unhoming and the condition of homelessness and laying claim to a new home. What role does the imagination have to play in conceiving of relationships between home and communities and does home continue to have a vibrant future as a place into which citizens can project themselves and shape imagined lives within just and fair societies? Here we consider the transformative possibilities of acts of the imagination. The arts and humanities can make significant contributions to existing research from the social sciences. By focusing on the role of the work that the imagination and representation - key categories for research in literary studies - can perform on home, it is possible to develop more productive and nuanced understandings of how communities conceive of themselves, how they create and sustain creative connections, how they foster their most profoundly affective elements. Understanding and investigating communities in these terms adds depth to conceiving of their interconnectedness. It draws attention to the relationship between the home as an imaginary and imagined category and the imaginary nature of representation and literary studies themselves. It also helps in analysing those changing points of tension and disjunction which can often be best articulated and interpreted through powerful acts of the imagination.