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The registry files the concept under place of birth, which is narrower.","purpose":"Let an agent explain the concept of homeland, relay its meanings across cultures and history from geography, history and political science sources with contested uses attributed, describe the named concepts, and distinguish homeland from place of birth, nation state, diaspora and patriotism, without taking sides in territorial disputes.","scope":{"in":[],"out":[],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Emotional attachment","Cultural and political senses","Contested claims","Linked to identity"],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"understand","name":"Understand","description":"What a homeland is.","layers":[{"id":"definition","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","findings":[{"id":"definition-finding","name":"Definition","description":"Definition.","questions":[{"text":"What is a homeland, and how does it differ from place of birth, nation state, diaspora and 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memory.","findings":[{"id":"diaspora-finding","name":"Diaspora","description":"Diaspora.","questions":[{"text":"How do diasporas maintain ties to homelands?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which sources are cited?","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"politics","name":"Politics","description":"Politics.","layers":[{"id":"bantustans","name":"Bantustans","description":"Apartheid homelands.","findings":[{"id":"bantustans-finding","name":"Bantustans","description":"Bantustans.","questions":[{"text":"How did apartheid South Africa use homelands to strip citizenship, as historians document?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits Bantustan?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"claims","name":"Claims","description":"National claims.","findings":[{"id":"claims-finding","name":"Claims","description":"Claims.","questions":[{"text":"How are homeland claims used in nationalist movements and conflicts, with positions attributed?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the presentation neutral and attributed?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"context","name":"Context","description":"Colonialism.","layers":[{"id":"metropole","name":"Metropole","description":"Metropole.","findings":[{"id":"metropole-finding","name":"Metropole","description":"Metropole.","questions":[{"text":"How did empires distinguish the metropole from colonies?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which entry fits colonialism?","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"indigenous","name":"Indigenous lands","description":"Indigenous homelands.","findings":[{"id":"indigenous-finding","name":"Indigenous lands","description":"Indigenous lands.","questions":[{"text":"How do Indigenous peoples frame ancestral homelands in law?","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the information current?","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain the concept of homeland and its emotional, cultural and political senses.","Describe the history of the term's uses, including nationalist uses, with sources."],"mustNot":["Take sides in territorial disputes while presenting it as fact.","Ignore nationalist or exclusionary uses of the concept when relevant.","Conflate different senses of homeland, such as the apartheid-era bantustans, without explanation."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing content on disputed homelands."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["The idea of a homeland has been used both to protect peoples and to exclude or displace them."],"affectedParties":["Displaced peoples","Minorities"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns the concept.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1322263","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q17334923","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"place of birth","type":"related","note":"registry parent, narrower"},{"target":"diaspora","type":"related"},{"target":"Heimat","type":"related","note":"concept"},{"target":"Bantustan","type":"related","note":"apartheid policy use"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.homeland","Wikidata: Q12566483 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12566483)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Bantustans: about 1959-1994 note - apartheid South Africa","Heimat film genre: popular 1950s note - West Germany","registry parents: place of birth, physical location note - narrower"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Place of origin or belonging","Metropole, Heimat","Place of birth is a biographical fact; nation states are political entities; diasporas live away from homelands; patriotism is attachment to a country","Not a physical object; expressed in maps, songs, literature and political claims."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["explain meanings","relay cultural and political uses","describe named concepts","present contested claims with attribution"]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Taking sides in territorial disputes","Ignoring nationalist misuse","Conflating distinct senses"]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on traditional lands","Right of return laws in several countries"]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["Describing places of origin and belonging.","ancestral homelands","national homelands","regional homelands such as Heimat","imperial metropoles","apartheid-era homelands"]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q12566483: homeland","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12566483","note":"identity and sense of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Should Heimat be a separate entry?","Should metropole be moved to colonial history entries?","How should contested homeland claims be presented?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q12566483/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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