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1 online resource (xxiii, 231 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
I. Home as (in)habitation: place, movement, and identity : Tracing homes habits: affective rhythms / Devika Chawla -- Musing on nomadism: being and becoming at home on the reindeer range / Myrdene Anderson -- (Be)coming home / Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa Wyatt -- II. Homelessness and other "homes" : Childhood homelessness: a phenomenological reflection / Erik Garrett -- Foothills of modernity: voicing home in Appalachia / Timothy Baird -- Motown magic and/in haunted hollers: from one othered America to another / Rebecca Mercado Thornton -- The exile narratives / Amardo Rodriguez -- III. Modernist re-visions of home / Men narrating their paths to stay-at-home fathering / Caryn Medved -- Home as a place of protest: Scott and Helen Nearing and the construction of the modern American homestead / Jennifer L. Adams -- Trashing home / Sean Gleason -- IV. Home as loss, displacement, and resilience : A kind of hush: adoptee diasporas and the impossibility of home / Anne M. Harris -- Bodies of working class knowledge, imaginative mobilities, and kinesthetic homes / Stacy Holman Jones -- Finding the backroads home / Tessa W. Carr -- On Dorion Street / Craig Gingrich-Philbrook -- Conclusion : Home, again / Stacy Holman Jones. |
| Summary |
"Notions of home are of increasing concern to persons who are interested in the unfolding narratives of inhabitation, displacement and dislocation, and exile. Home is viewed as a multidimensional theoretical concept that can have contradictory meanings; homes may be understood as spaces as well as places, and be associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being and moving in the world. In this book, we offer a window into the distinct ways that home is theorized and conceptualized across disciplines. The essays in this volume pose and answer the following critical and communicative questions about home: 1) How do people 'speak' and 'story' home in their everyday lives? And why? 2) Why and how is home--as a material presence, as a sense and feeling, or as an absence--central to our notion of who we are, or who we want to become as individuals, and in relation to others? 3) What is the theoretical purchase in making home as a 'unit of analysis' in our fields of study? This collection engages home from diverse contexts and disparate philosophical underpinnings; at the same time the essays converse with each other by centering their foci on the relationship between home, place, identity, and exile. Home--how we experience it and what it that says about the 'selves' we come to occupy--is an exigent question of our contemporary moment. Place, Identity, Exile: Storying Home Spaces delivers timely and critical perspectives on these important questions"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Dwellings -- Psychological aspects.
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Dwellings -- Psychological aspects. |
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Belonging (Social psychology)
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Belonging (Social psychology) |
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Identity (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Place attachment.
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Cultural geography.
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Place attachment. |
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Cultural geography. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Chawla, Devika, editor.
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Holman Jones, Stacy Linn, 1966- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stories of home Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015] 9780739194928 (cloth : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015026981 |
| ISBN |
9780739194935 ebook |
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0739194933 |
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9780739194928 cloth : alkaline paper |
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0739194925 (cloth) |
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