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Geographical Review July 1995, 85(3), pp. 324-334. Home as a Region Theano S. Terkenli ABSTRACT This essay explores the processes by which place becomes home and examines the characteristics of a home region that distinguish it from other types of regions. In contemporary Western society, weakening human identification with place and with social groups seems to be reducing home to a mere accumulation of habits that are elaborations on modern or postmodern lifestyles. A home region is a system of interlinked patterns of habitual association and attachment. However, realization that the world is increasingly interconnected and interdependent may produce the backlash of a return to home contexts that are most familiar and intimate. Intense affection for home points to a dialectical relationship between the extent of personal or collective homes and attachment to them. Keywords: home, human interaction, place, region. DR. TERKENLI is a visiting lecturer in geography at the University of the Aegean, Lesvos, Greece. To contact the author: Mail: Theano S. Terkenli, Visiting Professor Department of Human Geography University of the Aegean Karantoni 17, Mitline 81100 Lesvos, Greece Phone: 001 30251 46341 (office) 001 30251 23783 (fax)   Back to July 1995 Table of Contents