Making Home in the Suburb

Everyday Encounters in the Lebanese Australian House
2024
ISBN: 978-981-97-8730-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 401 g

This book investigates everyday life within Lebanese Australian homes, documenting how these homes integrate Lebanese Australian culture into suburban Australian life. It explores how the homemaking practices of Lebanese Australian families both influence and are influenced by the context of suburban housing in Australia. Drawing from in-depth interviews, household tours, photographic documentation, mental mapping, and historical imagery data collection, the book illuminates homemaking practices that have evolved from creating a "home away from home" to practices influenced by a unique Lebanese Australian lifestyle, rooted in the perception of Australia as their home.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shaweesh, Maram

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2.The concepts of home, house, and homemaking in the context of migration.- Chapter 3. The Lebanese Settlement in Australia: Past and Present.- Chapter 4.The search form home: Housing choices and preferences of the Lebanese Australian families.- Chapter 5. Multigenerational living: spatial needs and implications.- Chapter 6. ‘Doing family’: Everyday life in the Lebanese Australian home.

Über Autor(innen)

Maram Shaweesh is an Australian researcher whose work focuses on the interactions between the built environment and the people experiencing it, primarily from a cultural perspective. Dr. Shaweesh obtained her PhD in Architecture from the University of Queensland. Her interdisciplinary research spans several humanities and spatial disciplines, including architecture, housing adequacy, migration and multiculturalism, everyday encounters in Australian suburbs, urban design, and young people's experiences in urban spaces.