The Routledge Handbook of Home

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-44899-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 584 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge International Handbooks

This global, critical, and interdisciplinary handbook rethinks home as a material, emotional, and geopolitical site. It examines housing, displacement, domesticity, climate, care, and the intimate labours of home. Across diverse contexts, it challenges romanticised ideals and illuminates home’s inequalities, exclusions, and possibilities through feminist, decolonial, and life-course perspectives.

Spanning 46 chapters across four parts ('Theorising Home', 'Housing and Home', 'Domesticities and Everyday Life', and 'Global Challenges and Home Futures'), and with contributions from authors from around the world, this handbook blends conceptual innovation with grounded research. It offers global case studies, theoretical depth, and pedagogical tools on home’s entanglements with law, ecology, technology, violence, and more—making it indispensable for critical scholarship, teaching, and practice.

Designed for a broad audience, this handbook supports undergraduate learning, graduate teaching, and advanced research. It equips scholars, educators, activists, policymakers, and practitioners with essential insights and resources to engage with home as a site of power, identity, and struggle in a rapidly changing world.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stratford, Elaine

Walsh, Katie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introducing and understanding home Part I Theorising home Part I Introduction theorising home 2 Creatively researching home 3 Ethnography and home 4 Eros sexuality and the home 5 Temporality race and home 6 Intersectional feminists reimagining home 7 Home and homelessness 8 Writing against home 9 Domicide and home unmaking 10 The colonies of home 11 Home housing and law 12 The global intimate in the climate emergency 13 Homing with nature Part II Housing and home Part II Introduction housing and home 14 Global finance and the neoliberal home 15 Housing inequalities and home in higher income countries 16 Home housing rights and housing inequality 17 Urban gentrification and domicide 18 Designs for home 19 Experiencing homelessness 20 Home in refugee camps 21 Student accommodation and home 22 Community-led housing and home 23 Gated homes 24 Urban squatting and home Part III Domesticities and everyday life Part III Introduction domesticities and everyday life 25 The domestic interior 26 Gendered home lives 27 Domestic violence 28 Neurodivergence and home 29 Housing for inclusive homes 30 Homeworking 31 Digital technologies and home 32 Home and religion 33 Consumption identity and home 34 Food practices and home Part IV Global challenges and home futures Part IV Introduction global challenges and home futures 35 Genocide war and home 36 Un/homing and diaspora 37 Citizenship home and asylum 38 Diaspora and homeland development 39 The postcolonial home and belonging 40 Situated performances of home 41 Global domestic labour and home care 42 Code augment smart homes 43 Home urban 44 Tourism and home 45 Housing sustainability and home in the climate emergency 46 Earth as island home

Über Autor(innen)

Elaine Stratford is a professor in the School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences at the University of Tasmania, with interests in the geohumanities and cultural and political geography. Her research seeks to understand the conditions in which people flourish in place, in their movements, in daily life, and over the life-course. She is the author of several books, edited collections, and many chapters and articles. Her most recent monographs were published by Rowman & Littlefield International in 2019 under the title Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal: Geographies of the Interior and of Empire, and in 2023 under the titles Rethinking Island Methodologies, with Godfrey Baldacchino and Elizabeth McMahon, and Landscape, Association, Empire: Imagining Van Diemen’s Land, with Philip Hutch. Elaine is also an editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Home with Katie Walsh, and her next sole-authored book, Rethinking Life Course Geographies, is to be published by Edward Elgar. Work on that project is being supported by a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Writer’s Residency award. For the decade from 2015–2024 Elaine was the editor-in-chief of the international journal, Geographical Research, and is now its senior associate editor. She received the Institute of Australian Geographers’ Griffith Taylor Medal for Distinguished Service to the Discipline in Australia in 2022. When not working, she plants, harvests, and cooks, walks and works out, reads up a storm, and hangs out with loved ones.

Katie Walsh is Reader in Human Geography in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK, where she has developed an undergraduate module on home. Over the last two decades, Katie has published wide-ranging empirical research on home in relation to transnationalism, materialities, emotion, intimacy, family, ageing, Britishness, and migrant belonging. More recently, she has been exploring Mass Observation project data, using it to think through the embodied home and housing inequalities. Katie is also motivated in her work on home by personal experience of being a single parent household navigating the UK’s crises in building safety and leasehold home ownership. Among other publications, Katie is author of an ethnographic monograph on British migration to Dubai, Transnational geographies of the heart: Intimate subjectivities in a globalising city (Wiley, 2018), and has co-edited Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age (Routledge, 2016, with Lena Näre), British migration (Routledge, 2019, with Pauline Leonard), and The new expatriates: Postcolonial approaches to mobile professionals (Routledge, 2012, with Anne-Meike Fechter).