Human home is a meaning-centered sense of mastery and belonging, not a physical place.

Evidence

Because our brains are larger than those of birds and sea turtles, we know that it is not always possible, or even desirable, to return to the same patch of earth. Home need not always correspond to a single dwelling or place. We can choose its form and location but not its meaning. Home is where we know and where we are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary: part freedom, part flourishing… part refuge, part prospect. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames ‘home’ as a definitional concept—meaning and relationship rather than geography.
• XREF: connects to: Home can represent an entire region rather than a single place. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 100; The experience of home shapes our most fundamental conceptual categories — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1522; Being nominally in a society does not mean being of it — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 289 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Diasporic life is a novel cultural configuration, not a transition toward assimilation #exemplifies (0.80)
• Home can represent an entire region rather than a single place. #expands (0.75) — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 100
• The experience of home shapes our most fundamental conceptual categories #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1522
• Being nominally in a society does not mean being of it #qualifies (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 289