Geographies of home

Blunt, Alison; Varley, Ann

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“…This is a point which also feminist geographers have stressed. According, for instance, to Blunt and Varley (2004), the notion of home invokes as sense of place which is intimately tied to a sense of self (Blunt and Varley, 2004). As exemplified by one Finnish female interviewee:…”

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Meanings of place and aspects of the Self: an interdisciplinary and empirical account

Antonsich

2009

GeoJournal

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Section: Affirmed: "I Always Like It When I Go Back […] But I Don't Hmentioning

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Meanings of place and aspects of the Self: an interdisciplinary and empirical account

Antonsich

2009

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“…The importance of home spaces to identity has been well documented, particularly across cultural geography (Blunt, 2005;Blunt & Varley, 2004;Morley, 2000). Homes are seen as spaces imbued with emotions, relations, histories, not just defined in a mundane sense according to a broad array of domestic activities.…”

Section: Home Spaces and Lifementioning

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“…The making of home space can be viewed as a process in which personal histories and ideas regarding potential futures drive the present. Cultural geography has focused on areas such as gender, class and race in domestic spaces (Blunt & Varley, 2004), conceptualising the home as a place in which inequalities prevalent in wider cultural and social settings are played out in personal localised sites (Blunt & Dowling, 2006). The home is a site in which broader relational forces 'from outside' enfold into the micro spaces in which we spend so much of our time.…”

Section: Home Spaces and Lifementioning

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Everyday Spaces of Mental Distress: The Spatial Habituation of Home

Tucker

2010

Environ Plan D

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Theorising psychological activity as a spatial product appears a logical extension of moves in social theory to emphasise the role of space and place in the consideration of experience. Catalysed by turns in social and human geographies to highlight the role of space and location in constituting psychological activity, various forms of the ‘spatialisation of experience’ have emerged. In this paper I will follow this theoretical direction in relation to the underlying destabilisation of everyday life that emerges as a product of theoretical formations that emphasise the fluidity of space. More specifically, I will take the example of the home as a central space in the ongoing activity of people with enduring mental distress. Forging a theoretical line that takes in geographies of mental health, the home, and finally, Gilles Deleuze's work on ‘repetition’ and ‘habit’, I will analyse the role of home spaces in everyday life. Key here is a concern regarding the impact of theoretical emphases on continuity, mobility, and instability on understandings of the everyday lives of mental health service users. This includes addressing conceptualisations of the home space alongside the activities of the people who occupy, and hence co-make, such spaces. The article concludes by framing ‘spatial habituation’ of the everyday as central to creating a perceivable stability, analysis of which can aid understanding of the challenges facing people suffering with mental distress.

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“…Home as symbolic meaning, as social relationship, as developed rhythms and as physical place is a multilayered, interactive and productive process. As Blunt and Varley (2004: 3) suggest, home must be understood not just as a fixed and bounded location, but as: 'traversing scales from the domestic to the global in both material and symbolic ways … and located on thresholds between memory and nostalgia for the past, everyday life in the present, and future dreams and fears'.…”

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Sense of home in a transnational social space: New Zealanders in London

Wiles

2007

Global Networks

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In this article, I explore the ways in which ‘middling’ migrant New Zealanders living in London and New Zealand discuss and identify with home. For these multi‐local individuals, the discursive and material aspects of New Zealand as home form a framework for their everyday life as migrants living in London. Interpretation of the interviews using thematic and narrative analyses works through a conceptualization of home, migration, and identity as interdependent, through three interrelated themes: the symbolic or political nature of home; the importance of family and familiarity for a sense of home; and the role of physical material objects and places. Participants in this study see New Zealand as their home, yet by being away from home they gain new perspectives on home. In London, they engage with or resist a collective imaginary of New Zealand as home that is both self‐perpetuated and externally imposed, and which both reveals and conceals ideas about individual and group identity and community. On returning from London, the idealistic and sometimes simplistic visions of New Zealand as home that structure their lives in London are often disrupted by the more complex yet more mundane version of home and self with which they are confronted.

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Geographies of home

Cited by 311 publications

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Meanings of place and aspects of the Self: an interdisciplinary and empirical account

Meanings of place and aspects of the Self: an interdisciplinary and empirical account

Everyday Spaces of Mental Distress: The Spatial Habituation of Home

Sense of home in a transnational social space: New Zealanders in London

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