Full Description
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of 'home' in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the individual and local, through communal, to the international levels. While home informs our feelings of belonging and displacement, and our activities, such as migration, housing, and language learning, Bahun, Petric and contributors look to specific under-studied areas and encompass them within a major framework that allows for assessment through multiple disciplinary and expressive lenses. Thinking Home examines examples such as temporary homes, homes on the road, new and emergent modes of home-making, and minority groups in home and housing debates. Fresh, timely and topical, Thinking Home is rooted in activism and policy-making in the sector of 'home'; the essays both challenge and extend the existing scholarship on this subject. This collection combines perspectives of aesthetics, anthropology, cultural and literary studies, law, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, psychoanalysis, political science and activist responses in one whole. It will be essential reading for students of anthropology, literary studies, cultural studies and philosophy.
Contents
List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Homing in on Home, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part One: Homeness and Home-Making Introduction to Part One, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 1. Anyone—Any Arthur, Sean or Stan: Home-making as Human Capacity and Individual Practice, Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) 2. Domestic Dislocation - When Home Is Not So Sweet, Safe Ground (charity, UK) 3. Home: Paradoxes, Complexities, and Vital Dynamism, Renos K. Papadopoulos (University of Essex, UK) 4. Strained Belonging and Claims to Home: Ancestors and Descendants of the New York African Burial Ground, Susan C. Pearce (East Carolina University, USA) 5. Harvesting Stories: Home and Communities (Art Project), Lily Hunter Green (artist, UK) Part Two: Home and Dispossession Introduction to Part Two, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 6."He's just a bum, but who ain't?" The Mirror of Homelessness, Amy M.E. Morris (Cambridge University, UK) 7. Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: Homelessness, Responsibility and Social Welfare Entitlement, Vivienne Ashley (Independent Scholar, UK) 8. Recalling Home: Farewell to the House in Petrínská Street (A Theatre Project), Biljana Golubovic and Dragan Dragin (artists, Czech Republic) 9. The Emotional Dimension of Trading on Home in Later Life: Experiences of Shame, Guilt and Pride', Louise Overton (University of Birmingham, UK), Lorna Fox O'Mahony (University of Essex, UK), and Matthew Gibson (University of Birmingham, UK) Part Three: Languages of Home Introduction to Part Three, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 10. The Romani Language: A Signpost to Home, Damian Le Bas (artist, UK) 11. Migration and Belonging in the Home Literacies of Mirpuri Families, Anthony Capstick (University of Reading, UK) 12. Language at Home: A Reclaimed Heritage, Susan Samata (University of Sheffield, UK) Index
