Home - 2nd Edition

Name: Home - 2nd Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

HomeAuthor(s): Alison Blunt, Robyn Dowling\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367347253, 978-0367347253\nSynopsis\nHome articulates a critical geography of home in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on Home and the City that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. \n\nThe book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological cu.