Griffith Review 87: No Place Like Home

There's no place like home although home isn't always a place. It could be a feeling, an instinct, a language, a person, a memory; it could be where we long to return or can't wait to escape. But for all its symbolic resonance, home also has myriad material consequences: from the picket fence to the political arena, it raises questions of sovereignty, identity, economics, class and domestic labour. What's the future of home ownership? What does it mean to protect endangered languages? How do our