Nemzeti földrajz: A népek gyökerei és a nemzeti identitás territorializálása a tudományos irodalomban és a menekültek között
National Geographic: The Rooting of Peoples and the Territorialization of National Identity among Scholars and Refugees

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at decomposing and questioning the generally, often uncritically accepted common sense notion of sedantarism. According to the idea of sedentarism, sedentary, territorialized forms of life are natural, normal, and morally appropriate, and serve as a basis of identity. According to Malkki’s argument, this limited conceptualisation of the relationship between people and territory has to be superseded; especially today, when more and more of the world’s people are living under a “generalized condition of homelessness”. Th is does not imply the denial of the importance of place in the construction of identity, but opens up the possibility of conceiving identity not as a static, but as a mobile, processual and constructed entity.

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