Articulating 'Home' from 'Away': Cultural Identities, Belonging and Citizenship

A Home Away from Home

Someday, many people hope, humans will travel to Mars. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has plans for a mission to the planet in the 2030s, and entrepreneur Elon Musk says his SpaceX company can do it by 2024. If people succeed in setting up an outpost on Mars, they’ll need to build someplace for astronauts to live, sleep, and work. But hauling building materials acro...

Collective Identities and Citizenship

In the following I tI)' to show that there is an attractive notion of citizenship which is independent of any kind of collective identity. Citizenship is understood as one fonn of social interaction. It is argued that in order to understand social interaction adequate1y, it is necessary to introduce a structuraJ. theory ofpractical rationality, to the extent this conception of citizenship is ba...

A home away from home: the patient-centered health home.

Living With “Man’s Fate” Away From Home

Edward Nilges is a former software consultant who came from Chicago to Hong Kong in 2005, and has since worked as a teacher. Having been residing in Hong Kong for all these years, Edward fell ill with cancer and its complications. He choose to receive medical treatment in Hong Kong, where both the dominant culture and medical system were foreign to him. Here, he gives an account of his physical...

Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy

In their article "Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Cultural Literacy" Kris Rutten and Ronald Soetaert start from concerns in contemporary educational debates about a growing lack of civic literacy. These complaints are raised both in the public sphere, in institutions of pedagogy, and in scholarship about the form, content, and function of civic literacy and civic education. Although there is an ongo...