Author: Bonnie

This reflection on belonging is situated in hooks’ complex positionalities as a cultural critic and a racialized woman from Kentucky and, more broadly, Appalachia. It explores her own personal journeys from country to city to elsewhere, and her circling back to where she’d begun, in her childhood home place. The book explores the politics of…

This phenomenological research study is a business text overviewing the aspects of the work experience that give it meaning, exploring the feeling of belonging as experienced at work. Based on participant narratives from workers across the working life span, the paper outlines a structure of belonging at work composed of six themes, including discovery of…

This book is an organizational development text that emphasizes belonging as a key factor and strategy in resisting fragmentation and isolation, and in building healthy and successful community capacity. Its core premise is that cultural beliefs in individualism and in the idea that technology and science can solve our complex societal problems are inadequate and…

This study focuses on the benefits of belonging for college-aged populations, framed generally in the traditional undergraduate sense. Associations between students’ sense of belonging to a class environment and their academic motivation in that class, their perceptions of their instructor, and their campus-level belonging are correlated via survey. Academic self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and task value…

This study identifies and distinguishes three analytical levels on which belonging can be constructed, outlining psychological and sociological elements of belonging as well on literature on modernity and alienation. Its first level of belonging focuses on social location, the second on individuals’ identification with and emotional attachment to collectives and groups, and its third on…

This book overviews belonging in the British context from the perspective of ethnic minorities, exploring identity and agency outside of the protection of whiteness in the post-colonial West. It focuses on differing conceptions of Britishness and belonging, and offers narratives outlining various tensions experienced by members of British minority communities. The book draws on the…

This political text offers an historical overview of liberalism, globalization, and the resulting rise of the ‘cosmopolitan’ identity, positioned in opposition to particular localized identities and solidarities, and juxtaposed especially against fundamentalism. It then explores various forms of cosmopolitanism, how they are constituted across literature, and how they approach ideas of citizenship, both of nation-states…