Full Description
This global, critical, and interdisciplinary handbook rethinks home as a material, emotional, and geopolitical site. It examines housing, displacement, domesticity, climate, care and the intimate labours, subjectivities, and practices of home. Across diverse contexts and with varied perspectives, including feminist, queer, and decolonial apprachers, the handbook chapters challenge romanticised ideals and illuminate home's inequalities, exclusions, and possibilities.
Spanning 46 chapters across four parts ('Theorising Home', 'Housing and Home', 'Domesticities and Everyday Life', and 'Global Challenges and Home Futures'), and with contributions from authors from around the world, this handbook blends conceptual innovation with grounded research. It offers global case studies, theoretical depth, and pedagogical tools on home's entanglements with law, human rights, ecology, technology, violence, and more—making it indispensable for critical scholarship, teaching, and practice.
Designed for a broad audience, this handbook supports undergraduate learning, graduate teaching, and advanced research. It equips scholars, educators, activists, policymakers, and practitioners with essential insights and resources to engage with home as a site of power, identity, and struggle in a rapidly changing world.
Contents
1 Introducing and understanding home Part I Theorising home Part I Introduction theorising home 2 Creatively researching home 3 Ethnography and home 4 Eros sexuality and the home 5 Temporality race and home 6 Intersectional feminists reimagining home 7 Home and homelessness 8 Writing against home 9 Domicide and home unmaking 10 The colonies of home 11 Home housing and law 12 The global intimate in the climate emergency 13 Homing with nature Part II Housing and home Part II Introduction housing and home 14 Global finance and the neoliberal home 15 Housing inequalities and home in higher income countries 16 Home housing rights and housing inequality 17 Urban gentrification and domicide 18 Designs for home 19 Experiencing homelessness 20 Home in refugee camps 21 Student accommodation and home 22 Community-led housing and home 23 Gated homes 24 Urban squatting and home Part III Domesticities and everyday life Part III Introduction domesticities and everyday life 25 The domestic interior 26 Gendered home lives 27 Domestic violence 28 Neurodivergence and home 29 Housing for inclusive homes 30 Homeworking 31 Digital technologies and home 32 Home and religion 33 Consumption identity and home 34 Food practices and home Part IV Global challenges and home futures Part IV Introduction global challenges and home futures 35 Genocide war and home 36 Un/homing and diaspora 37 Citizenship home and asylum 38 Diaspora and homeland development 39 The postcolonial home and belonging 40 Situated performances of home 41 Global domestic labour and home care 42 Code augment smart homes 43 Home urban 44 Tourism and home 45 Housing sustainability and home in the climate emergency 46 Earth as island home
