Full Description
A rapidly growing number of double homes connect different parts of Europe in new ways. The second home can be a cottage in the woods, an apartment in the Costa del Sol or a restored farm house in Tuscany. However, other forms of double homes must be added to these landscapes of leisure. There are long distance commuters who spend most of their week in an overnight flat, in a caravan on a dreary parking lot or at a construction site. Economic migrants dream of a house 'back home' for vacations or retirement. Dual homes come in all shapes and sizes -- from the caravans of touring circus artists to people turning sailboats into a different kind of domestic space. This special issue of "Ethnologic Europaea" captures some dimensions of lives that are anchored in two different homes. How are such lives organised in time and space in terms of identification, belonging and emotion? How do they, in very concrete terms, render material transnational lives? The next issue of the journal (2008:1) will take such a comparative perspective into another direction as the authors will consider different kinds of research strategies to achieve European comparisons and to gain new cultural perspectives on European societies and everyday life.
Contents
Double Homes, Double Lives?; The Temptations of the Provisional. Multilocality as a Way of Life; Vacation Home Culture at 1,000 Meters. The Thirty-Something Generation in Engelberg, Switzerland; Refugee's Refuge; Generations and Transnational Homes; Why the Best Furniture Goes to the House You Can't Live in; The Travelling Lives of Circus Artists. Home and Homelessness in a Nomadic Life; Homes Afloat. Observations on Long-Term Cruising Yachts; Waking up in Two Nations; Waterfront Second Homes in the Central Canada Woodlands. Images, Social Practice, and Attachment to Multiple Residency; "We Live Ten Years Longer Here". Elderly Danish Migrants Living on the Costa del Sol; Being Misleading About Where One Resides. European Affluence Mobility and Registration Patterns; Breaking Out into the Everyday. German Holiday-Home Owners in Italy; A Colonial Relation Not My Own. Coming Home to Morocco and France; Village Homes; Second Homes and Tourism in a Greek Village. A Travelogue; Paradise Lost and Regained. German Second Home Owners in Mazury, Poland; At Home Abroad. The Field Site as Second Home.
