Friday, April 01, 2005
Loss of homes and homelands
Read Peter
Returning to nothing. The meaning of lost places
Cambride and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1996
This may not be a new book but it is worth bringing to the attention of anyone considering issues of loss and grief. Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions and may be entangled in grief over the death of a loved person.
This book,which originated in Australia, describes various scenarios of loss with regard to place - migration from other countries and the pain of return, for example returning to Croatia after the civil war there, Darwin after a cyclone, the flooding of towns to make a dam, the loss of a house due to fire, "slum" clearance which is of course the loss of a neighbourhood to some people.
There is also quite simply the loss associated with loss of "home" -and home can be described in many different ways from a house to a community to a much loved view from a window.
Returning to nothing. The meaning of lost places
Cambride and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press 1996
This may not be a new book but it is worth bringing to the attention of anyone considering issues of loss and grief. Feelings about lost or destroyed places rouse our deepest emotions and may be entangled in grief over the death of a loved person.
This book,which originated in Australia, describes various scenarios of loss with regard to place - migration from other countries and the pain of return, for example returning to Croatia after the civil war there, Darwin after a cyclone, the flooding of towns to make a dam, the loss of a house due to fire, "slum" clearance which is of course the loss of a neighbourhood to some people.
There is also quite simply the loss associated with loss of "home" -and home can be described in many different ways from a house to a community to a much loved view from a window.
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