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This article explores the different qualities of 'home' and 'homeland' as they are visualised in various films produced by Indian filmmakers between 1970 and 2001; on the one hand, by commercial Mumbai cinema, and on the other hand, overseas, non-commercial film directors. The key question is how notions such as longing and belonging to a country and cultural heritage are articulated and contested by Non-Resident Indians (NRIs). The article proposes that in terms of values and identification, there is a shift from national responsibility to familial loyalty to individually chosen habitats. The first section of the article examines three films that address the question of how Indians can uphold and rejuvenate patriotic values and loyalties towards their motherland and family traditions. This idea of a 'portable identity' is counterposed in the second section of the article, which examines two films about second-generation Indians living in North America who feel estranged by their parents' traditions and the idea of return and seek to root themselves permanently abroad.

"Engaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms"--

Repetition is constitutive of human life. Unlike simple recall, repetition is permeated by the past and the present and is oriented toward the future. This book investigates the significance of different forms of repetition in literature, culture, and society through studies of the function and importance of an array of repetitive phenomenon.

Die Betrachtung der Stadt von morgen hat viele Facetten. Ihr enormes Wachstum sowie drängende Herausforderungen der zunehmenden Mobilität, Digitalisierung und Klimawandel stellen die Menschen vor die entscheidende Frage, wie eine lebenswerte Stadt aussehen kann. Der vorliegende Band möchte dazu anregen, unter Einbezug sehr unterschiedlicher Perspektiven wie Architektur und Literatur, Geographie und Gesundheit, Anthropologie und Planung sowie Umweltwissenschaft und Energie über eine Stadt von Menschen für Menschen nachzudenken. Welche Visionen haben Planerinnen und Planer? Was kann die Wissenschaft dazu beitragen? Der Band soll einen Einblick in diese vielfältige Auseinandersetzung geben.