Drawing on our previous discussion, this week we will explore how receptive~responsive self-identities dwell in reciprocal relationships with their neighborly surroundings. We’ll reflect on how belonging isn’t only cultural or social – it’s ecological, emotional, sensory, and deeply felt. Revisiting patterns from migratory life, diaspora stories, and bioregional wisdom, we ask:
Is home a house, a community, a relationship, a memory, or a place?
How do we sustain co-ordination around and between our centers of receptive~responsive awareness?
Do our ethical obligations change when considering places proximately or distantly? If so, how is that measured?
How does the false-isolation of identity from its natural energetic and spatial environment engender psychological, ecological, and organizational distress?
Does the reappearance of place in western philosophical discourse, as illuminated in ‘Philosophies of Place’ by Hershock and Ames, represent a re-turn from abstract and a priori reasoning towards phenomenological modes of perception?
Places are charged with distinctive generational significance and influence. As dynamically embodied beings in place-time, living bodies must have fluid boundaries to attune with continually changing contextual circumstances. Let’s discuss the dynamics of belonging beyond the imposed and widely accepted fixed boundaries of modernity.
Meet – Belonging Beyond Borders: Place, Identity, and the Sense of Home
