Home : International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging.
Title:
Home : International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging.
Author:
Kusenbach, Margarethe.
ISBN:
9783653035605
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (329 pages)
Series:
Of Empire and the City
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Home: An Introduction Margarethe Kusenbach Krista E. Paulsen -- Part One: Ideas of Home -- Modeling Home: Ideals of Residential Lifein Builders' Show Houses Krista E. Paulsen -- Still the "American Dream"? Views of Home Ownership in the Wake of the Foreclosure Crisis Elizabeth Strom Susan Greenbaum -- Homelessness and Conceptions of Home Kurt Borchard -- Somewhere In Between: Chicago Bia Gayotto -- Part Two: Making Homes -- Fragments of Home in Youth Care Institutions David Wästerfors -- Displaced: Old People in Assisted Living Carol A.B. Warren Kristine N. Williams -- A Home Not One's Own: How Young Russians Living with Extended Family Negotiate Space Jane Zavisca -- "Kinda Just a Home I Guess": Toward Theorizing the Making of Home in Vancouver Nathanael Lauster -- Part Three: Community and Belonging -- Place Feelings and Life Stories in Florida Mobile Home Communities Margarethe Kusenbach -- Community and Belonging in a London Suburb: A Study of Incomers Paul Watt -- Inside Out: A Visual Investigation of Belonging in a London Neighborhood Debbie Humphry -- Belonging and Home: The Perspective of Urban Pioneers in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Gabriela B. Christmann -- Everyday Encounters and Belonging in Public Spaces: Findings from Rotterdam and Utrecht Saskia Binken Talja Blokland.
Abstract:
This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people's everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both ideally and practically, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one's home deviate from cultural ideals - for instance, in crowded, institutional, or stigmatized housing contexts, in disadvantaged or transient neighborhoods, or when one has no permanent dwelling at all - the authors illuminate how experiences and practices of home are central to what it means to be human.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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