A quick note to be amplified.
Just reading Neil Ascherson's book "Black Sea" (1995, revised 2007). He discusses the contrast between "nomadism".. being "set up against Greek city-state patriotism which was about settledness, continuity, love of place (my italics) (p. 53). This was, he suggests, a propaganda job to strengthen the Greek state.
He goes to mention the "exhilarating new pseudo-science.. called nomadology". Proponents of this idea claim that humanity is entering a new epoch of "movement and migration .. which this time involves not merely Eurasia but the entire world". (p.55). "The subjects of history, once the settled farmers and citizens, have now become the migrants, the refugees, the Gastarbeiter, the asylum-seekers, the urban homeless."
This idea, pseudo or not (I have still to read the rest of his book), definitely is a contrast to the Heideggerian emphasis on "place" as a sense of identity which is absolutely fundamental.
To be continued and reflected upon...
