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Objectives: Researchers have reported close links between forgiveness and positive life outcomes for people of all age groups. The study explored the perceived transgressions and forgiveness of the elders using a qualitative research design. Design and Methods: Narrative qualitative research design was employed. The semi-structured interview was used to collect data of 10 elders of old-age homes (Mean age = 67.20, SD = 4.57) and 12 elders residing with their families (Mean age = 69.33, SD = 4.21) which were analysed through thematic analysis. Results: Severe loss, serious neglect and cheating were the major perceived transgressions of the old-age home elders whereas day-today issues characterized the perceived transgressions of the family elders. Pseudo-forgiveness was observed in the elders of old-age home because of helplessness and their fear of losing respect while affiliation, perceived harm, the realisation of offence, and perceived consequences of punishment were precursors for the forgiveness in family-living elders. Both the groups acknowledged the role of offence, intention, relationships, attributions and commitment to socio-cultural and moral values in forgiveness.

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- Thematic Analysis, Home, Qualitative Research Design, Shelter home

How do young people living in residential care perceive their environment? How do they experience the sights, sounds, smell and feel of living in an institution? How may attachment to place contribute to the wellbeing of young people? This paper explores meanings of home in domestic and regulated (institutional) environments from the perspective of young people and staff living and working in a residential children's home in England. Drawing on a pilot study using visual participatory research methods adapted from the Mosaic approach (Clark, 2011), the study identifies what young people and staff considered important about the place where residents lived. Using photographs and commentary, three conceptual themes are discussed: the home as institutional space; the home as 'practices'; and home as idealised space. The paper raises questions as to how ways of 'doing home' can be supported in these liminal spaces that strive to be both domestic and institutional.

- by ICB: Institutionalised Children Explorations and Beyond
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- Photography, Space, Home, Meaning-making

In her 1990 text “homeplace (a site of resistance),” bell hooks argues that for black women throughout history, the making of home cannot be extricated from the struggle against racism and forging of community. This paper explores how artists who occupy tenuous subject positions as immigrants, people of color, and female engage with home-making. Instead of examining home as an object, I engage with home-making as an action that is shifting and provisional. Using philosophical, sociological, and anthropological constructs of “home” as points of departure, I turn toward the domestic projects of visual artists Amanda Williams, Mona Hatoum, and Doris Salcedo. In Color(ed) Theory (2015), Amanda Williams repaints and reconstructs vacant urban homes in such a way that demonstrates the persistent presence of the human even beyond its bodily inhabitation of home’s hallowed halls. Mona Hatoum’s installations Homebound (2001) and Mobile Home (2005) fold the alien and violent into domestic objects that defy being fixed to domestic architectures. Doris Salcedo’s La Casa Viuda (1995) and other untitled sculptures transform doors, dressers, and wardrobes with concrete, dust and bone in response to the flights of Colombian women from their homes and vacillate between tracing memories of the past and
being haunted by premonitions of violence, evacuation, and ruination with the ongoing passage of time. In the works of these three artists, the binary between homely and unhomely comes apart, and homemaking becomes the act of inhabiting or embodying something that shifts, accommodating for a wider range of experiences in how one constitutes self in relation to one's environments.

- by Ambrin Chi En Ling
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- Philosophy, Aesthetics, Media Studies, Self and Identity

Co wiemy o polskich parach mieszkających razem bez ślubu? Tekst oferuje krótkie podsumowanie wiedzy płynącej z dotychczasowych badań ilościowych, wzbogacając je o wyniki badań przeprowadzonych w 2011 roku w Poznaniu. Przy tej okazji, omówione zostają problemy tego typu badań i pułapki na poziomie zbierania oraz intepretowania danych. Stają się one tym bardziej widoczne, jeśli przyjrzymy się wynikom badań jakościowych pochodzących z Warszawy i Poznania, zaprezentowanych w drugiej części artykułu. Pokazują one, że obok mieszkania razem istnieją liczne formy „pomieszkiwania” oraz różne stosowane przez pary intymne sposoby oddzielania od siebie kolejnych etapów instytucjonalizacji związku. Dzielenie przestrzeni i materialności jest doświadczeniem i etapem rozwoju będącym udziałem bardzo wielu związków, jednocześnie jednak istotnym punktem odniesienia jest dla nich ceremonia ślubu, która ma „przypieczętować” związek oraz dokonane wybory, nadać mu społeczną legitymizację oraz „wyczyścić” wcześniejszy etap mieszkania razem z cechujących go ambiwalencji.

- by Filip Schmidt
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- Family, Sociology Of Intimacy, Cohabitation, Intimacy

A philosophical Treatment of Home as a phenomenon.

- by Aviezer Tucker
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- Refugee Studies, Homelessness, Cosmopolitanism, Václav Havel
- by Kerry Chamberlain
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- Social Policy, Ethnography, Poverty, Homelessness

This article, based on an analysis of the Survey of Convicted Prisoners from eight Latin American countries, helps to expand knowledge about the association between victimization in childhood and the criminal behavior of individuals who have been incarcerated. The results of the multivariate regression models show that having grown up in a home in which the father/partner beat the mother (indirect violence) mainly affects women when it comes to future criminal behavior (both their likelihood of being repeat offenders and of having possessed firearms). / A partir del análisis de la Encuesta de Presos Condenados de ochos países de América Latina, el artículo contribuye a expandir el conocimiento sobre la asociación entre la victimización en la infancia y la conducta delictiva de los individuos privados de libertad. Los resultados de los modelos de regresión multivariada muestran que haber crecido en un hogar en donde el padre/pareja le pegaba a la madre (violencia indirecta) afecta principalmente a las mujeres en relación con su conducta delictiva (tanto en lo que respecta a su probabilidad de ser reincidentes como a la tenencia de armas de fuego). A la vez, se pone de manifiesto que haber sido víctima directa de maltrato es un factor que afecta tanto a mujeres como a varones en lo que respecta a la posibilidad de reincidir, pero en mayor proporción a los varones cuando se trata de la tenencia de armas de fuego. El artículo sugiere que las intervenciones orientadas a la prevención deben tener en cuenta estas diferencias de género para alcanzar una mayor efectividad. Las mujeres parecen estar afectadas por ambos tipos de victimización en la infancia, lo que conlleva a considerar que las estrategias de intervención para la población femenina deben estar orientadas en atender las dos modalidades de violencia (directa e indirecta). En cambio, las intervenciones en virtud de la prevención de conductas delictivas masculinas podrían focalizarse específicamente sobre la violencia familiar directa.

- by Latin American Program Wilson Center
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- Domestic Violence, Violence, Family, Gender

Przedmiotem artykułu są relacje człowieka z przedmiotami i przestrzenią, w których realizuje się ludzkie istnienie i codzienne działanie. Omawiamy kolejno różne aspekty tych relacji: wytyczanie możliwych do pomyślenia i utrwalonych sposobów działania oraz korespondujących z nimi form więzi społecznej; aktualizowanie rutynowych schematów działania; doświadczanie i manifestowanie tożsamości. Odwołujemy się m. in. do fenomenologii Merleau-Ponty’ego oraz prac Jeana-Claude’a Kaufmanna, a jako ilustracji używamy przede wszystkim materiału zgromadzonego w badaniach form i granic ludzkiej wyobraźni i przeprowadzonych w czterech miasteczkach w Wielkopolsce.

- by Filip Schmidt
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- Sociology, Material Culture Studies, Sociology of Identity, Family

That talk is never disinterested complicates the relationship between the environment and the claims people make about it. Talk about place, and one's self in it, is particularly complex when the environment poses risk or is otherwise problematized. This study, a secondary analysis of interview data, seeks to extend discursive work on place-identity by examining the ways in which 14 residents of a small English village talk about themselves and their locale. The locale accommodates an active quarry, and many residents had lodged complaints to the quarry about dust, noise and vibrations from blasting. Attention to the interactional context of the interviews illustrates the ways in which (simply) interviewing people about their locale can threaten self- and place-identity. When asked about life in the village, interviewees oriented to two main dilemmas in protecting self- and place-identity: (1) how to justify continued residence in a challenging environment and (2) how to complain about the locale whilst maintaining positive place-identity. Discursive responses to these dilemmas drew upon typical identity processes, such as self- and place distinctiveness and the formulation of out-groups, as well as upon constructions of localized power-sharing and morally obligated tolerance of risk. We suggest that research on problematical places, and of environmental risk, needs to be sensitized to how it may constitute a threat to self- and place-identity, and how this may mediate formulations self and place, as well as of environmental risk.

- by Anna Madill
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- Real Estate, Business Ethics, Environmental Engineering, Discourse Analysis

What might it mean to think of 'the single' as a potentially queer subject and in what ways does singleness pose a challenge to heteronormative conceptualizations of the lifecourse and household formation? In this paper I explore some of the contested meanings of ‘home’ for those who are single; and examine how single people have created new forms of home and new spaces of at-homeness with those with whom they are not biologically (or romantically) related. I conclude by asking how we might help foster, build and create new forms of dwelling that might better match single people’s imaginings and desires for a home outside of heteronormative coupledom. Ultimately the paper argues that the exclusion of the figure of the single is one of the key omissions in the work of those interested in challenging the geographies of exclusion and inequality.

- by Eleanor Wilkinson
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- Sociology, Feminist Sociology, Sociology of Families, Geography

By evaluating the language, rituals and lives of the men in eighteenth-century molly houses, and comparing them with the ideal heterosexual Georgian family home, as well as the gentlemen’s clubs of the period, this essay intends to... more

- by Annie Harrison
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- Heterosexuality, Ritual, Gender and Sexuality, History of Sexuality
- by David Seamon and +2
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- Human Geography, Environmental Psychology, Place and Identity, Space and Place

This article contributes to phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard’s call for topoanalysis by examining houses and inhabitation depicted in two works by American writer Louis Bromfield (1896-1956). The first work considered is “The Hands of God,” a 1939 short story that recounts the defilement of a 300-year-old Basque farmhouse. The second work considered is Bromfield’s last novel, the 1951 Mr. Smith, which depicts the unraveling, pre-World-War-II home life of Wolcott Ferris, a conventional Midwestern, middle-class husband and father. These two works demonstrate how, regularly in his creative efforts, Bromfield depicted a lived reciprocity whereby house and inhabitants mutually sustain and reflect each other, sometimes in positive ways that facilitate engagement and care; at other times, in negative ways that intimate or spur personal or social dissolution.
The article concludes by considering implications for phenomenological research on houses and homes in the 21st century. The argument is made that, on one hand, inhabitation involves a lived whole unified by its total character. On the other hand, inhabitation involves a lived dialectic founded in a twofold significance involving internal diversity versus external connectedness. In both these inner and outer relationships, there are “sustaining” and “undermining” situations—e.g., the home as a place of comfort and regeneration versus the home as a place of unease, vulnerability, or conflict. Most broadly, the perspective argued for here looks inward toward the uniqueness of particular homes and inhabitations but also recognizes that they are integrally related outwardly to the world beyond, including other places, the broader societal context, and global interconnectedness.

- by David Seamon
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- Place Attachment, Space and Place, Gaston Bachelard, Martin Heidegger
- by IOLC Conference
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- Home, Children, Parents, Hearing Impairment

This paper draws on and extends the author’s earlier work on the history of the Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition and suburban modernity in Britain. It contributes to historical research in material culture studies and design history on modernity and domesticity, drawing on contemporary ethnographic methodologies. It explores the ways in which new domestic technologies helped form modern identities for women as housewives and consumers in the inter-war years in Britain. It rejects functionalist critiques of domestic labour-saving technologies by feminists and Modernist design historians. It argues that for many women who lived in the new suburbs the significance of technology was in its symbolism rather than its rational claims to functionalism and efficiency. It posits that although appliances did not necessarily save labour, they enhanced the status of the task, by recognising women’s labour. It argues that domestic appliances were not just valued for their labour-saving potential; they were also valued for the images of modernity that they projected. Moreover, it argues that the motive for the acquisition of appliances could be to participate in a shared sociability.

- by Deborah Sugg Ryan
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- Design History, Home Design, Home, Housework
- by Ida Wentzel Winther
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- Everyday Life Studies, Home

Essays by Owen E. Brady, Kelly C. Connelly, Juan F. Elices, Keith Hughes, Derek C. Maus, Jerrilyn McGregory, Laura Quinn, Francesca Canadé Sautman, Daniel Stein, Lisa B. Thompson, Terrence Tucker, and Albert U. Turner, Jr. In Finding a Way Home, thirteen essays by scholars from four countries trace Walter Mosley's distinctive approach to representing African American responses to the feeling of homelessness in an inhospitable America. Mosley (b. 1952) writes frequently of characters trying to construct an idea of home and wrest a sense of dignity, belonging, and hope from cultural and communal resources. These essays examine Mosley's queries about the meaning of "home" in various social and historical contexts. Essayists consider the concept--whether it be material, social, cultural, or virtual--in all three of Mosley's detective/crime fiction series ( Easy Rawlins, Socrates Fortlow, and Fearless Jones), his three books of speculative fiction, two of his "literary" novels ( RL's Dream, The Man in My Basement), and in his recent social and political nonfiction. Essays here explore Mosley's modes of expression, his testing of the limitations of genre, his political engagement in prose, his utopian/dystopian analyses, and his uses of parody and vernacular culture. Finding a Way Homeprovides rich discussions, explaining the development of Mosley's work.

- by Derek C. Maus and +1
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- American Literature, Black Studies Or African American Studies, American Studies, Sex and Gender

Lusoga proverbs have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom embedded in the metaphors used. These selected proverb clusters address issues connected with humanity, family, socialization and gender equity. Above all, they address relationships between people and people, people and objects, people and plants and people and animals. The ultimate livelihood of the individual is rooted in the cultivation of the right relationships with the environment. Food, women and habits are at the center of this pedagogy and the riddle within the proverbs is enacted through the performance of these proverbs in real life thus giving them a life.

- by Cornelius W Gulere
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- Engineering, Religion, History, Sociology
- by ThuyNga Tran
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- TEFL, Home, ESL, EFL
- by Marc Breviglieri
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- Architecture, Urban Studies, Home

The global mobility of international students has a distinct geography. For international students, moving from their 'home' countries to a new country entails significant changes in their everyday lives. Moving across continents and temporarily or permanently settling in a 'foreign' land are the stepping stones to an intensely mobile existence. They maintain transnational connections with their 'home' country, and move across and between different social spaces locally, primarily with the help of friendship networks. Framing the research around theoretical underpinnings of migration, transnationalism, and (im)mobilities in the context of 'home' for Indian students in London and Toronto, the research involved 72 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 36 students, together with self-directed photography of their everyday life and solicited week-long diaries. The research has two main aims. The first is to explore the emotional, material, sensorial, and embodied nature of 'home' and their spatialities in three different spaces: the city, university, and dwelling. Second, the research aims to unearth the multi-layered nature of their socio-spatial identities through their everyday spatialities. The main findings re-instated the importance of place as experiences of the students in the spaces of the city, university, and dwelling varied (and were also similar) in London and Toronto. Also, apart from diverse sociocultural backgrounds of the Indian students, there were characteristic differences in the motivations for migration. This also pointed towards the significance of place, with London and Toronto attracting two different kinds of Indian students. Most importantly, ‘home’ was understood as processual, and simultaneously mobile, and emplaced.

- by Subhadra Roy Patil
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- Migration, Gender, International Students, Home
- by Lidia K.C. Manzo
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- Architecture, Youth Studies, Housing, Intergenerational Relationships
- by 梦竹付
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- Social Movements, Postcolonial Studies, Sexuality, Migration

20. yüzyılın başlangıcından itibaren popüler olmaya başlayan ev kavramı, domestik hayatın merkezi olduğu için de pek çok mimarı, tasarımcıyı ve kuramcıyı etkilemiş, ev vurgulu pek çok yaklaşım geliştirilmiştir. Bu çalışmada ise Behçet Necatigil'in "Evin Hâlleri" isimli şiirinden yola çıkılmış ve ev ve insan arasındaki ilişki biçimleri, şiirin yarattığı serbest çağrışım(lar) üzerinden incelenmektedir. Şiirin çıkarımları olan ilişki biçimleri ise modern dünyada sürekli mobil olma ihtiyacımıza referans veren bir seyahat fikriyle özdeşleştirilir. Bu seyahat sırasında, insan, evin beş hâli ele alınır; yalın hâli,-de hâli,-i hâli,-e hâli,-den hâli. Yazı boyunca varlığını sürdüren serbest çağrışımlar üzerinden şekillenen kuramsal çerçeve, evin dönüşümünü, evin yuva olabilirliğini, evin içinde gizli kalanı, evin nesneleşmesini, evin hâlâ ev olup olamayacağını tartışır.

- by hande tulum
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- Housing and Dwelling (Architecture), Home, Dwelling, Konut

This six-page research briefing summarises the main findings from the ESRC-funded project 'Young children learning with toys and technology at home'.

- by Lydia Plowman
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- Technology, Play, ICT, Home

This article examines the material culture of migration, focusing on migrants’ house-making projects in their countries of birth. In particular, it examines the houses built or refurbished by Albanians in their home-country, which is no longer their place of permanent residence. This is a widespread phenomenon in Albania, but it is also a frequently appearing practice amongst other international migrants. Why do migrants living outside their home-countries build houses there even though they do not plan to return? I seek to answer this question in the case of Albania by focusing empirically on the process of constructing these houses, rather than merely on the material entity of the house
as such. I propose that such ‘house-making’ by Albanian migrants is not only a simple house-building process; it also ensures a constant dwelling and dynamic ‘proxy’ presence for
migrants in their community of origin. These ethnographic observations have further significance for the anthropological study of both houses and international migration.

- by Dimitris Dalakoglou
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- Cultural History, Bioinformatics, Sociology, Cultural Studies

- by Dimitris Dalakoglou
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- Cultural History, Bioinformatics, Sociology, Cultural Studies

I argue that, although we are inherently intersubjective beings, we are not first or most originally “public” beings. Rather, to become a public being, that is, a citizen—in other words, to act as an independent and self-controlled agent in a community of similarly independent and self-controlled agents and, specifically, to do so in a shared space in the public arena—is something that we can successfully do only by emerging from our familiar, personal territories—our homes. Finding support in texts from philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, I construe the claim that citizenship is a developed stance as a spatial issue. I conclude that a state (or, for that matter, a philosophy) that takes the human being to begin as an isolated individual agent fails to recognize the essential spatial relationships on which we depend— namely, those arising through our way of being-at-home in the world; and, as a result, such a stance not only misconstrues the parameters on which citizenship is itself possible but also risks developing a social situation that encourages behaviors we see in the agoraphobic—namely, the behaviors of alienated and fundamentally homeless human beings.sjp_29 219..245

- by Kirsten Jacobson
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- Philosophy, Space and Place, Phenomenology, Gilles Deleuze
- by Erica Fudge
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- Creative Writing, Critical Theory, History, Gender Studies
- by Farhan Samanani
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- Geography, Anthropology, Ethnography, Mobility/Mobilities
- by Susan Quesal
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- American Studies, Serial killers (Anthropology), Home
- by Zuzana Sekeráková Búriková
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- Anthropology, Migration, Migration Studies, Material Culture

We describe an eighteen-month empirical investigation of three- and four-year-old children’s uses of technology at home, based on a survey of 346 families and 24 case studies. The findings are reported in the context of social commentators’ anxieties about the ways in which childhood is being transformed by technology. Although we report evidence of some parental disquiet about the role of technology in children’s lives we illustrate some of the complexities in families’ attitudes to, and uses of, technology and conclude that it is not perceived by parents to be the threat to modern childhood that is claimed.

- by Lydia Plowman
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- Children and Families, Digital Media & Learning, Home

Born in Okinawa of Okinawan mothers and Filipino fathers, many Nisei who were brought up in the Philippines have returned to Okinawa as adults to seek economic mobility, acquire Japanese citizenship, and search for part of their roots. However, their mixed heritage, lack of proficiency in the Japanese language, and reliance on the US military bases for their livelihood put them in an ambivalent position in Okinawan society. Concerning the controversial US presence in Okinawa, the Nisei have ambivalent sentiments, which reflect their own uncertain position in Okinawan society, but this ambivalence also mirrors the conflicted views of other Okinawans.

- by Johanna O Zulueta
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- Sociology, Japanese Studies, Migration, Philippines

2000'ler sonrası İstanbulu'nda her geçen gün bir yenisi inşa edilen rezidans tipi yüksek binalarda yaşayan insanların gündelik hayatlarına odaklanan bu çalışma, neoliberal politikaların dönüştürdüğü kentin gündelik hayattaki tezahürlerine temas etmeye çalışmaktadır. Burada yaşayan insanların, evleri, komşuları, mahalleleri, sokaklarıyla geliştirdikleri ilişkiyi etnografik yöntemle inceleyen çalışma, yaşam alanındaki farklılaşmanın insan üzerindeki etkilerine odaklanmaktadır. İstanbul'un farklı bölgelerindeki binalarda yaşayan insanlarla evlerinde yapılan derinlemesine görüşmeler, gözlemler ve alan notlarına dayanan araştırma, bu tip binalarda yaşamanın kentin çeşitliliğinden uzak, tektipleşmiş bir kent deneyimi sunduğu iddiası taşımaktadır.

- by Moment Dergi (Moment Journal) and +1
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- Everyday Life, Home, Tall Buildings, Neighbourhood

5 - Joaquin E Meabe - Materiales de estudio para revisar y aprender con Paideia de Werner W. Jaeger 4 – Nimio de Anquín - 24-06-2017 Estos estudios, que forman una serie de drafts, tienen, ante todo, una austera finalidad descriptiva... more

- by Joaquin Meabe
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- Education, Personality, Culture, Home

Urbanization has destroyed and fragmented previously large areas of habitat. Small remnants that still exist in numerous cities will be unable to sustain many viable wild plant populations if they do not expand into the surrounding urban matrix. Residential gardens form a significant component of urban green space in many cities and therefore could play a role in redressing this problem. Our ecological and social scientific study examined factors influencing the dispersal and regeneration of 12 bird-dispersed native woody species from Riccarton Bush, a 7.8 ha urban forest remnant, into surrounding residential properties in Christchurch, New Zealand. Over 125 years, the reported number of native vascular plant species in the Bush has declined by a third. Some species, particularly Dacrycarpus dacrydioides, the dominant woody species in the Bush, are being dispersed by birds and establishing in residential gardens predominantly within 250 m of the forest margin. These juveniles are not reaching maturity as most gardeners tend to remove all non-planted woody species. This suggests natural potential for regeneration exists but is insufficient without active human intervention. Our survey results show people are supportive of native plants in general but lack knowledge of the species. They are willing to plant locally appropriate woody species if provided with plants, information, and, most importantly, control over the location of plantings. Residential gardens consequently have the potential to play a major role in the conservation of urban biodiversity especially for species suited to the functions and size of gardens.

- by Brendan Doody and +2
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- Interdisciplinarity, Urban Ecology, Interdisciplinary Studies, Interdisciplinary research (Social Sciences)
- by Farhan Samanani
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- Mobility/Mobilities, Migration, Housing, Feminism
- by Sarah Martindale
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- Home, Research Methods, Accepted

This chapter sets out to explore the notion of home, and the ways in which imaginaries of home inform some of the darkest moments of contemporary life. People fleeing conflict are trying to find a safe space in which they can make a home, those migrating are trying to make themselves at home in strange environments, those seeking out gay bars and nightclubs are seeking places to socialise in which they feel at home. Those transitioning across genders or maintaining gendered fluidity are seeking bodily appearances which signal possibilities of social interaction in which they, too, can feel at home. In each of these examples home is imagined as a positive good, something central to people’s wellbeing. But the imaginary of home can also be problematic. This chapter explores both the necessity and the dangers of the imaginary of home, and people’s assumptions that they are entitled to all aspects of it. The dangers rest on a backwards-looking nostalgia for mythical communities. This informed support for both Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US and many right wing parties in Europe and beyond. It engenders hostility to difference. The chapter argues that homeplaces are central to wellbeing, but views the building of homeplaces as a future directed project, not an act of backwards looking nostalgia.

- by kathleen lennon
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- Home, Belonging, Precariousness, Familiarity

Migrants’ constructions of their domestic spaces, and their struggle to feel at home in both receiving and sending societies, are an emerging focus of research in migration studies. Housing issues are also a privileged observatory on their transnational social engagement, as well as on the changing boundaries of their membership and belonging. This article addresses the everyday bases of their home-making and house-building practices, drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorian migration to Italy. What can be inferred from the ways in which migrants inhabit their houses “here”, while typically investing in better housing arrangements “there”, as to their alignment towards either society? What do their housing-related practises suggest about the potential to feel locally and transnationally at home, given the structural constraints they are subject to? By tracing the meanings, enactments and locations of migrants’ home, I aim to advance the debate on home and migration in two respects: the persistent materiality which underlies the home experience, and the significance of migrants’ houses, particularly in sending societies, as a window on the mixed social consequences of migration.

- by Paolo Boccagni
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- Migration, Home, Home-Making
- by Emma Willemse
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- Photography, Installation Art, Environmental Psychology, Contemporary Art

This chapter explore the ways in which twenty-first-century Britons of Caribbean heritage are revisiting the home in attempts to navigate the idea of home as a physical/ geographical space and home as a feeling. Focusing on the role women, I discuss (1) a problem with how one particular concept of home is universalised and applied to people whose lived experiences are not reflected within the parameters of that conception and, (2) a problem with the conflation of the core ideas entailed in the Western conception of home and the use of one to define the other in ways that negatively impact certain people’s experience of home. Ultimately, I claim, home for women, is a space in which the fight for freedom must crucially be waged.

- by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond
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- Black/African Diaspora, Caribbean Studies, Black Atlantic, Home

In this paper, I aim to explore the ways in which Brian Friel, in representing the Irish diaspora through the individual experiences of Cass in The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966), addresses the spatial issues of the diasporic experiences of Irish women, especially the home of displacement in Ireland and the home of placement outside Ireland. Two versions and conceptualizations of home embodied respectively by the Irish patriarch at home and the migrant woman away from home confront with each other upon the return migration of the latter in this play. Therefore, The Loves of Cass McGuire stages intricate negotiations between the nationalized imaginary of home and the gendered identity of Irish women. Furthermore, as shown in this play, home not only is a private haven of homeliness but also becomes a public site of political contestation and identity formation. An unhomely/uncanny presence, returned women migrants, like Cass, eventually lapse into physical, psychological and social homelessness, and are forced to construct a homely home of their own away from the home of origin.

- by Chen-wei Han
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- Irish Studies, Irish Literature, Irish Diaspora, Nationalism