Being and Belonging

摘要: The subject of this work is the nature and significance belonging its intersection with human identity being in world. Its main impetus towards addressing the question as it arises present day Australia, where, connection with national identity, remains a highly politicized contested issue. telling stories about Australian belongings not only provides insights into shape complexity of the contemporary debate, but also serves to illustrate how, presentation of having multiple competing manifestations, what belong per se is rendered indistinct. This exemplifies key problem where concerned. While invoked an issue crucial existential concern public discourse and across broad range disciplines, there apparent troubling lack of conceptual or linguistic apparatus according which notion can be grasped and critically analysed. object explore redress problematic situation. Clearly, consideration involves of how these two concepts are articulated together theory. latter question explored by surveying theoretical conceptual frameworks from ‘senses’ identity and commonly discourses (and elsewhere) appear to have evolved. What discovered, however, inability models, which operate on assumption that product relation person, or people, something else (society, history environment) encapsulate logic capable of supporting premise. If we accept at stake of belonging our persons almost all models suggest), then looking outside self for will do. What needed properly articulate model presents relational account world ontological structure allows us see belonging from inside, so speak. Although humanistic geography (what referred here as the ‘geographical school’ phenomenological inquiry) promises both, shown how research genre necessarily constrained by methodology. There more to being ‘inside’ place than knowing it. account must folded back order disclose core. It small number of key figures developing Philosophy ‘Place’ Heideggerian notions brings with it) has been crucial. Place terms understood primary ontological structure gathers holds those things—social, historical physical— that By turning ontology inside-out, able clearly that people gatherers holders place. pertains within somehow within self. now understood in own terms—as capable drawing and unifying different elements Such is found Kierkegaard, drawn theory qua correct relation. Belonging qua correct represents entirely new way of understanding, terms, (or not), Australian context, wherever whenever arises.