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Brings together essays engaging with the phenomenological tradition to explore the lived experience of belonging and what it means "to belong," exploring aspects of its embodied, interpersonal, social, political, geographical, national, and temporal dimensions.
The Phenomenology of Belonging brings together essays engaging with the phenomenological tradition, which explore the lived experience of belonging as well as what it means "to belong." The book examines and elucidates the embodied, interpersonal, social, political, national, spatial, and temporal dimensions of belonging. Comprised of essays by international scholars who offer diverse perspectives on the topic of belonging, the book examines the phenomenological basis for belonging from its foundational forms through to the emotional and embodied registers that affect persons in their everyday lives. It traces these aspects from the level of affective experience through to the political, cultural, and social structures that impede or foster forms of inclusion and diversity as well as participation and cohesion.
"This is an excellent edited volume. It brings together many leading scholars from a range of relevant areas of study. The chapters are of a consistently high quality and collectively make an important, novel contribution to the field of phenomenology by offering a sustained examination of a crucial, yet somewhat neglected, concept. The volume also demonstrates the value of reflecting on the phenomenology of belonging for social and political theory more generally." — Paddy McQueen, Swansea University
Danielle Petherbridge is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. Luna Dolezal is Professor of Philosophy and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter. Together they edited Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters, also by SUNY Press.