Uprooting from home and roots defines modern global society’s history

Evidence

The disruption of people from their settled places, from their homes, from their familiar surroundings, their roots in the land and landscape, from their traditional ways of life, from their religions, from their familial connections—the uprooting that has become the history of modern “global society.” … A movement of people trying never to be “there” crossing every boundary in the world. And think, though we did not know it at the time, we were the forerunners! — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1205

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘forerunners’ claim links Hall’s own 1951 migration to the diaspora concept — a hinge for the imagined-community and nation critique the module needs. — connects to: Heidegger held that all greatness originates from rootedness in home and tradition — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 961