Home and state
Reflections on metaphor and practice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14971012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Davies (0000-0003-1546-7204, Flinders University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-175 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Griffith Law Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1038-3441 • E-ISSN: 1839-4205 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10383441.2014.962447 |
| OpenAlex | W2149746531 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 28 |
‘Home’ is frequently invoked to refer to the nation and a unified national identity, often with a spoken or unspoken division between ‘us’ and ‘them’. The concept of home is also a constitutive metaphor in much political debate, and has been instrumental in the shaping of the public–private distinction. This essay considers the idea of ‘home’ in a narrower focus, as a metaphor for, and a structural feature of, the formal construction of the state and government. My purpose is not to argue for or against adoption of the complex normative values of home in the constitution of the state, but rather to point out that these values and associated rhetoric surface in unexpected and disparate ways in state-related discourse. In Australia, because of the colonial dispossession of Aboriginal homelands and the construction of the state as a home for white people, there is a case that the dissonant references of ‘home’ need to be acknowledged as powerful elements of modern constitutional and governmental forms
Aesthetics · Constitution · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Linguistics · Metaphor · Normative · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · State (computer science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law
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The coloniality of Casa. Homing, emerging adulthood, and differentiated embedding among South-Italian Youth in Northern England
Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”
Promoting Hate Speech by Dehumanizing Metaphors of Immigration
Long-Term 'Ethnicized Silences', Family Secrets and Nation-Building
Conceptualising domestic servitude as a violation of the human right to housing and reframing Australian policy responses
Weaponized Domesticity
Muslim Calls to Prayer in the Swedish Welfare State
Calibrating home, hospitality and reciprocity in migration
Family fortunes
Tudor Revolution in Government
Philosophy and Public Affairs
Nomadic subjects
Metaphor of Redemption, Myths of State
Understanding Home
Home on ‘the block’
Home and Identity
Social Engineering and the Woman Question
Planning in the Swedish Welfare State
Re-Imagining Sweden
Common place, common sense
A Place Like Home
Vocabularies of citizenship and gender
Genocide
Mere Auxiliaries to the Commonwealth
We Are the Good Guys
Sovereign Spaces, Caring for Country, and the Homeless Position of Aboriginal Peoples
Where Are we at Home
Home as a Region
Home
Early Liberal Roots of Feminism
Eccentric Subjects
Finding the Man in the State
Collective identities, women's power resources, and the making of welfare states
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |