| List of illustrations | p. xvii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A place to start from | p. 1 |
| Heim and Heimat | p. 2 |
| Microwaving the macro theory | p. 4 |
| Disciplinarity: multi, inter or post? | p. 6 |
| Where the global meets the local | p. 9 |
| Travelling and dwelling | p. 12 |
| Ideas of home | p. 16 |
| Origins and belongings | p. 16 |
| The domestic home: space, rules and comfort | p. 18 |
| Homes and houses | p. 19 |
| The history of home in urban space: a story of separations | p. 21 |
| The social distribution of privacy and comfort | p. 22 |
| The symbolism of home | p. 24 |
| Privatisation and domesticity | p. 25 |
| Homelessness in a home-centred culture | p. 26 |
| Heimat, modernity and exile | p. 31 |
| At home in the Heimat | p. 31 |
| Rootlessness as disorder | p. 33 |
| The road to the nation | p. 34 |
| Defending the national home | p. 37 |
| Sedentarism, mobility and the hearth | p. 39 |
| Geographical monogamy and promiscuity | p. 41 |
| At home in modernity | p. 42 |
| The migrant's suitcase | p. 44 |
| Language, recognition and silence | p. 47 |
| Exile: living in the past | p. 49 |
| The plight of the Yugo-zombies | p. 50 |
| Migrants' homes and alien environments | p. 51 |
| Transnational migration: Australian Italians | p. 52 |
| Home is where you leave it | p. 54 |
| The gender of home | p. 56 |
| Deconstructing domesticity: family propaganda | p. 56 |
| Masculine premises, gendered anxieties | p. 59 |
| Domesticity, modernity and modernism | p. 60 |
| The housewife, the home and the Heimat: woman as home | p. 63 |
| Gender, mobility and visibility | p. 64 |
| Home, tradition and gender | p. 65 |
| The gender of the modern public | p. 67 |
| The place of the housewife | p. 70 |
| The gendering of global space | p. 73 |
| Gender essentialism? | p. 75 |
| Heimat's darker shadows: domesticity, dirt and femininity | p. 78 |
| The heimlich, the heimisch and the unheimlich | p. 79 |
| The uncanny art object | p. 80 |
| At home with the media | p. 86 |
| Domestic media/mediated domesticity | p. 86 |
| TV in the modern home | p. 87 |
| The media and the construction of domestic routine | p. 89 |
| Negotiating difference in the family | p. 91 |
| The gendered forms of media consumption | p. 93 |
| The end of gender? | p. 95 |
| Continuing divisions of gender | p. 96 |
| Boundaries and technologies: communities on the phone wires | p. 97 |
| Television in the Outback | p. 99 |
| Virtual and actual travel | p. 100 |
| Bounded realms: household and nation | p. 101 |
| Virtual borders, virtual homes | p. 102 |
| Broadcasting and the construction of the National Family | p. 105 |
| The mediated nation as symbolic home | p. 105 |
| Participatory models of the media: from ideology to sociability | p. 108 |
| Beyond the singular public sphere? | p. 113 |
| The masculine public | p. 114 |
| The whiteness of the public sphere | p. 118 |
| White broadcasting in the UK | p. 120 |
| Towards a multi-ethnic public sphere? | p. 124 |
| Transnational and diasporic public spheres | p. 125 |
| The media, the city and the suburbs: urban and virtual geographies of exclusion | p. 128 |
| Television as a suburban medium | p. 128 |
| The suburbs: home for whom? | p. 129 |
| Speaking up for the (gendered) suburbs | p. 130 |
| Other suburbs | p. 131 |
| The ecology of fear: white flight | p. 133 |
| Suburbanism - the politics of withdrawal | p. 138 |
| Geodemographics: "Where you live is who you are" | p. 140 |
| The purification of space | p. 141 |
| Matter out of place | p. 142 |
| Problematic smells and signs | p. 145 |
| The writing on the wall | p. 146 |
| Media, mobility and migrancy | p. 149 |
| Exclusion, withdrawal and mobile privatisation | p. 149 |
| Virtual and physical alterity | p. 151 |
| Worlds in motion: moving images and deterritorialised viewers | p. 153 |
| Migration and representation - symbols of impurity, rituals of purification | p. 155 |
| Spaces of difference: migrants, residential space and media representations in France | p. 156 |
| Incarceration in the banlieues | p. 159 |
| Territorial symbols | p. 161 |
| Geographies and genres of representation | p. 163 |
| Beyond the Orientalist image | p. 165 |
| German Turks? Auslander and others | p. 167 |
| Postmodern, virtual and cybernetic geographies | p. 171 |
| Virtual geographies | p. 171 |
| (Non) place, home and identity | p. 173 |
| Bifocal visions and telesthesia | p. 174 |
| Mediated strangers | p. 177 |
| Fellowmen, compatriots and contemporaries | p. 179 |
| The time of the Other | p. 180 |
| Screening the Other | p. 182 |
| The geography of sympathy | p. 184 |
| The regime of the fictive "We" | p. 185 |
| The boundaries of cyberspace: access to the Net | p. 186 |
| Rhetorics of the technological sublime? | p. 188 |
| Community lite and communitarianism | p. 190 |
| Postmodern geographies: a sceptical view | p. 191 |
| The power geometry of "connexity" | p. 196 |
| New geographies and differential mobilities | p. 200 |
| Tourists and vagabonds | p. 201 |
| Borders and belongings: strangers and foreigners | p. 204 |
| Global culture: a borderless world? | p. 204 |
| Unsettling motion | p. 206 |
| Citizenship and belonging | p. 209 |
| Pilgrims and nomads: from (rapid) journeys to Generalised Arrival | p. 210 |
| Continuing difficulties with differences | p. 211 |
| Island boundaries | p. 214 |
| Boundary, identity and conflict: social and psychological mechanisms | p. 216 |
| Homely racism | p. 217 |
| The racialisation of space | p. 220 |
| Nationalism, narcissism and minor differences | p. 220 |
| Kristeva: the problem of "the foreigner" | p. 222 |
| Domesticating alterity | p. 223 |
| Cosmopolitics: boundary, hybridity and identity | p. 225 |
| Cosmopolitics and connexity: the new condition of the world? | p. 225 |
| The migrant in limbo | p. 226 |
| The value of mobility: home truths? | p. 228 |
| The historical roots of "nomadology" | p. 230 |
| Discrepant and variable cosmopolitanisms | p. 230 |
| Hybridity talk | p. 232 |
| The commodification of differences | p. 234 |
| Anti-anti-essentialism | p. 236 |
| Differential hybridities | p. 237 |
| Nationalism and conjuncturalism | p. 239 |
| Nation, community and household: the fuzzy logics of solidarity | p. 242 |
| Postmodernism, post-structuralism and the politics of difference: at home in Europe? | p. 246 |
| Nostalgia, belonging and fear | p. 246 |
| Cultural fundamentalism and Homo Xenophobicus | p. 247 |
| Beyond identity politics? | p. 250 |
| Community, difference and Heimat | p. 253 |
| Europe: living on the ethnic faultlines | p. 257 |
| The making of EuroCulture | p. 259 |
| Europe as an unresolved issue | p. 261 |
| Fortress Europe | p. 262 |
| The Other within | p. 263 |
| Notes | p. 266 |
| Index | p. 331 |
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