The theme of "homelands" is not only topical but also highly charged. An intensive and above all ongoing reflection on this changing concept is essential – not only in the light of current migration movements. In this discursively structured volume, historians, humanities scholars, social scientists and scientists come together to discuss the problematic nature of homelands. Their perspectives do not limit themselves to the contemporary concepts of homelands, but rather reach all the way back to antiquity. The contributors to this volume, all of whom were involved in a workshop at the Laboratory of the Enlightenment at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena include Friedemann Schmoll, Martina Haedrich, Frank W, Hellwig and Meinolf Vielberg.
