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Book SynopsisThis book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people’s everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both ideally and practically, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one’s home deviate from cultural ideals – for instance, in crowded, institutional, or stigmatized housing contexts, in disadvantaged or transient neighborhoods, or when one has no permanent dwelling at all – the authors illuminate how experiences and practices of home are central to what it means to be human.
Table of ContentsContents: Margarethe Kusenbach/Krista E. Paulsen: Home: An Introduction – Krista E. Paulsen: Modeling Home: Ideals of Residential Life in Builders’ Show Houses – Elizabeth Strom/Susan Greenbaum: Still the «American Dream»? Views of Home Ownership in the Wake of the Foreclosure Crisis – Kurt Borchard: Homelessness and Conceptions of Home – Bia Gayotto: Somewhere In Between Chicago – David Wästerfors: Fragments of Home in Youth Care Institutions – Carol A. B. Warren/Kristine N. Williams: Displaced: Old People in Assisted Living – Jane Zawisca: A Home Not One’s Own: Hoe Young Russians Living with Extended Family Negotiate Space – Nathanael Lauster: «Kinda Just a Home I Guess»: Toward Theorizing the Making of Home in Vancouver – Margarethe Kusenbach: Place Feelings and Life Stories in Florida Mobile Home Communities – Paul Watt: Community and Belonging in a London Suburb: A Study of Incomers – Debbie Humphry: Inside Out: A Visual Investigation of Belonging in a London Neighborhood – Gabriela B. Christmann: Belonging and Home: The Perspective of Urban Pioneers in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods – Saskia Binken/Talja Blokland: Everyday Encounters and Belonging in Public Spaces: Findings from Rotterdam and Utrecht.
