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Mobile locations: construction of home in a group of mobile transnational professionals
Author(s) -
NOWICKA MAGDALENA
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0374.2006.00157.x
Subject(s) - set (abstract data type) , mobilities , group (periodic table) , point (geometry) , bounded function , geography , computer science , economic geography , sociology , mathematics , social science , geometry , mathematical analysis , chemistry , organic chemistry , programming language
How do professionals constitute their homes under conditions of extensive mobility? The study is based on interviews with professionals working for an international organization who are chronically mobile. Despite their high mobility, they describe little difficulty constructing homes. Home can best be understood here not as a fixed location, but as a set of relationships, to both humans and non‐humans. There are elements of spatial proximity, but also of distance, and homes may be defined by both objects present and excluded. They may be a focal point, but at the same time part of a heterogeneous network that spans localities as well as binds past and present. Home is therefore territorially defined, but only as an extended network rather than as a bounded location.