At Home in Globalization?

The recent renaissance of home in culture & media has reactivated a discussion about the role of anchor in the theories of globalization. It has also revived the discussion of the consequences of globalization in everyday life. Today the challenge is not so much to understand the difference between a homebound life & globalization, but to establish a dialogue between the two. By trying to place home in the center of theories on mobility, modernity & globalization, this article focuses on the gap between traditional understandings of globalization & myths of everyday life & home. Theoretically & methodically this article lies in the field between housing research cultural studies & theories of globalization. It is embedded in the writings of Marshall Berman & in Mieke Bal's theory of "traveling concepts," developed for interdisciplinary studies, but goes through a range of canonized publications & writings dealing with the gap between home & globalization as it tries to open up for a more up to date & post modern definition of the globalized home. Adapted from the source document.