House as Home (2022) PDF

Residence: house as home A L I S ON B LU N T A N D R OBY N D OW L IN G (2 0 22 ) House as home What does home mean to you? Where, when, and why do you feel at home? To what extent does your sense of home travel across, and co- exist between, different times, places, and scales? How and why...

Residence: house as home A L I S ON B LU N T A N D R OBY N D OW L IN G (2 0 22 ) House as home What does home mean to you? Where, when, and why do you feel at home? To what extent does your sense of home travel across, and co- exist between, different times, places, and scales? How and why is home politically as well as personally important? What is at stake in thinking about what home means, where it might be located, and whether it is understood and experienced in positive or negative ways, or a mix of the 2? House as home Personal meanings and experiences of home The political significance of home: (the politics of home) shaped by inclusions, exclusions and inequalities in relation to gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, class age Interconnections of both House as home Current examples of the intertwined connections between personal and political significance of home? Beyond academic research, home is an important focus within popular discourse and the arts, cultural, and heritage sectors Examples?  How home is studied: spatial, material and social elements Housing policy Economics of housing house design House as experience and meaning of home home Family, home and house home is a series of feelings and attachments, and may be connected to a physical structure called a house House as home Critical These feelings, geography of ideas and home (socio- imaginaries are spatial all spatial: perspective) Home is an idea Home is a complex and an imaginary and multilayered set home as a place Home as the home as a spatial that comes with of socio-spatial relations between imaginary Home is a place feelings of relations and place, space, emotions home as an idea that where we live belonging, desire, scale, identity constructs and intimacy but also connects places at a and power violence, fear, number of alienation geographical scales – as it co-exists over different scales b/c we move from a household scale to an urban scale and then through the intersections of home, nation, empire, migration, transnationalism and diaspora  Residence explores the many relationships between house and home How home as an ideal is materialized in the form of dwelling structures – explore spatial layouts of house as they correspond to dominant ideologies of family and home Illustrate the ways of thinking about home geographically – house as home allows us to explore the identity politics of home, people’s House as home-based practices and how they relate to the material cultures of home and family Multi-scalar politics of home shows how home can be stretched home beyond houses and spaces The chapter examines 4 examples of house-as home: Home economics, suburban homes, apartments and shared housing, and institutional forms of residence Focus is on the role played by dominant ideologies of home in shaping peoples’ experiences and practices in domestic environments House as home Home Economics: Economic significance of housing Housing tenure, social divisions, identities, and home Home as work, work at home Smart homes and smart devices Property TV  Residence as Homely: Suburban Homemaking: the material geographies of home the social relations of home – class, gender, age, sexuality, embodied experiences of home - home making practices and House as multisensory homes home mental health and able-bodies  Residence as How are temporary, Homely: shared and short- Homemaking in term housing Shared, Temporary, viewed through and Institutional dominant ideals of Dwellings: home Temporary dwelling Home unmaking – is characterized by domicide, both homeliness gentrification and unhomeliness House as home Homelessness is unhome Home and domestic violence House as home Conclusion: From religion in suburban homes, home-based status markers, teenage bedrooms and their material cultures to feeling at home through homemaking practices in shared, marginalized homes, the chapter reveals the many ways in which houses become home and how home attaches itself to houses and dwellings The meanings of home come from various relations of homemaking practices among members which are informed by imaginaries of home Doing family through practices and displays have a spatial element which is home.