Home [electronic resource] / Alison Blunt and Robyn Dowling.
'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings. An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates 'home�...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Series: | Key ideas in geography.
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| Summary: | 'Home' is a significant geographical and social concept. It is not only a three-dimensional structure, a shelter, but it is also a matrix of social relations and has wide symbolic and ideological meanings. An essential guide to studying home and domesticity, this book locates 'home' within wider traditions of thought across the social sciences and humanities. It analyzes different sources, methods and examples in both historical and contemporary contexts; ranging from homes on the American frontier and imperial domesticity in British India, to Australian suburbs, multicultural London, and South Asian diasporic homes. The core argument of the book has three main parts that cut across each of its chapters: Home-making * identity and belonging * homely and unhomely spaces. Each chapter includes text boxes and exercises and is well illustrated with cartoons, line drawings, and photographs. Readership: Outlining the social relations shaping (and being influenced by) the geographies of home, and the imaginative as well as material importance of home, this book will be a valuable reference for students of geography, sociology, gender studies, and those interested in the home and domesticity--Publisher's blurb. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 304 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index. Includes web resources. |
| ISBN: | 0203401352 9780203401354 9786610566877 6610566879 9781134319527 1134319525 9781134319473 1134319479 9781134319510 1134319517 9780429327360 0429327366 9781000555493 1000555496 9781000555523 1000555526 |