Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging
Title | Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging PDF eBook |
Author | Rachel Hurdley |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2013-05-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137312955 |
Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home.
Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature
Title | Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Chiara Giuliani |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2021-08-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3030750639 |
This book examines the meaning of home through the investigation of a series of public and private spaces recurrent in Italian postcolonial literature. The chapters, by respectively considering Termini train station in Rome, phone centres, the condominium, and the private spaces of the bathroom and the bedroom, investigate how migrant characters inhabit those places and turn them into familiar spaces of belonging. Home, Memory and Belonging in Italian Postcolonial Literature suggests “home spaces” as a possible lens to examine these specific places and a series of practices enacted by their inhabitants in order to feel at home. Drawing on a wide array of sources, this book focuses on the role played by memory in creating transnational connections between present and past locations and on how these connections shape migrants’ sense of self and migrants’ identity.
Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home
Title | Migration, Settlement, and the Concepts of House and Home PDF eBook |
Author | Iris Levin |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 131796179X |
How do migrants feel "at home" in their houses? Literature on the migrant house and its role in the migrant experience of home-building is inadequate. This book offers a theoretical framework based on the notion of home-building and the concepts of home and house embedded within it. It presents innovative research on four groups of migrants who have settled in two metropolitan cities in two periods: migrants from Italy (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from mainland China (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Melbourne, Australia, and migrants from Morocco (migrated in the 1950s and 1960s) and from the former Soviet Union (migrated in the 1990s and 2000s) in Tel Aviv, Israel. The analysis draws on qualitative data gathered from forty-six in depth interviews with migrants in their home-environments, including extensive visual data. Levin argues that the physical form of the house is meaningful in a range of diverse ways during the process of home-building, and that each migrant group constructs a distinct form of home-building in their homes/houses, according to their specific circumstances of migration, namely the origin country, country of destination and period of migration, as well as the historical, economic and social contexts around migration.
Dwelling
Title | Dwelling PDF eBook |
Author | Orsolya Katalin Petőcz |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 309 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3031568400 |
Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies
Title | Intimacies, Critical Consumption and Diverse Economies PDF eBook |
Author | Yvette Taylor |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2015-10-21 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1137429089 |
This collection explores the relationships between the emotional and material, engaging with and developing the debates surrounding the emotional and material labour involved in producing and reproducing domestic and intimate spaces. The contributions examine the geographies and spaces of consumption in international and local-global spheres.
Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain
Title | Family Mourning After War and Disaster in Twentieth-Century Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Ann-Marie Foster |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 240 |
Release | 2024-08-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0192872028 |
Across the twentieth century, the families of people who died in war and disaster were left to make sense of their sudden loss and navigate newfound grief. This book focuses the families of people who died in the First World War and in mining disasters in the early twentieth-century. These bereaved families were often denied access to bodies and choice over burial rights, all while dealing with the increased bureaucracy of death.Families created domestic memorials, which took on additional meaning because of this lack of memorial agency elsewhere. Although the ways that these families were bereaved each took place in different circumstances, the ways that families grieved were recognizable to one another: they drew on common memorial practices, augmented to take on special meaning after sudden death.This memorial material provided a vehicle for families to navigate their loss, but also to communicate the memory of the dead both externally, through donation to museums, and linearly, through ancestral lines. Drawing on a nuanced reading of a wide range of sources - from ephemera to administrative museum paperwork - this book explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain. The result is a comparative and domestic perspective on mourning at the turn of the century that makes important contributions to the growing field of death studies, and will be of interest to those working on the First World War, interwar Britain, the history of work, the social history of the family, and the history of memorialization. 6 b&w illustrations
Sexuality and Gender at Home
Title | Sexuality and Gender at Home PDF eBook |
Author | Brent Pilkey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 229 |
Release | 2020-05-27 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000189953 |
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question conventional ways of thinking about allegedly ‘private’ home space. Comprehensive introductions to each of the book’s three sections – on Intimacy and Home, Queering Home, Beyond Home – provide a coherent overview of the existing literature as well as additional historical and cultural context. Fourteen chapters present ground-breaking research and insights into sexuality, gender and home across culture, time and space. Written by academics from a range of subject disciplines, chapters are based on research covering countries including Australia, France, Sweden, the UK, the USA, Guyana, Israel, and Singapore.This highly original text is the ideal starting point for anyone wishing to get to grips with the emerging field of sexuality, gender and home and will particularly appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, architecture, gender studies, sociology, and human geography.