Homeward Bound? Searching for home in Inner Sydney's share houses

McNamara, Sophie; Connell, John

doi:10.1080/00049180601175873

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“…Other forms of household do, of course, exist -such as young professionals house sharing (e.g. McNamara and Connell, 2007) or single person households. However, since both sustainability initiatives and research concerned with domestic sustainability focus primarily on households comprising family members, and since I am concerned here with negotiations between young people and their parents, my use of the term 'household' refers to family households; that is, at least one adult with one or more dependent children.…”

Section: Defining the (Sustainable) Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Collins

2015

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a b s t r a c tRecent research on how best to support the development of pro-environmental behaviours has pointed towards the household as the scale at which interventions might be most effectively targeted. While proenvironmental behaviour research has tended to focus on the actions of adults, almost one-third of UK households also include children and teenagers. Some research has suggested that young people are particularly adept at exerting influence on the ways in which the household as a whole consumes. Yet this influence is not only one-way; parents continue to have direct input into the ways in which their children relate to and interact with the objects of consumption (such as personal possessions) through routine processes including acquisition, use, keeping and ridding. In this paper I draw on qualitative research with British teenagers to highlight how young people and their parents interact when managing household material consumption. I use this discussion to suggest that promoters of sustainability might increase the efficacy of their efforts by engaging households as complex family units, where individual household members' distinct priorities are linked by shared familial values, and where family-based group identity is used to encourage shared commitment to lower-impact living.

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Section: Defining the (Sustainable) Householdmentioning

confidence: 99%

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Collins

2015

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“…At the 2011 Australian Census, nearly two-thirds of all adults in the 18-34 year age bracket lived in independent households (ABS, 2011). Yet we still know very little about how this majority of young adults -who live independently of their parentsorganise their lives within domestic spaces (Berrington, et al, 2009Gorman-Murray, 2014;McNamara and Connell, 2007). Young adults as independent householders have also garnered little attention in existing research linking age and sustainability, arguably amplifying misguided depictions of this generation as lacking independence.…”

Section: Talkin' 'Bout My Generation 1 : the Explanatory Power Of Genmentioning

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Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities

2015

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“…However, both contested the idea that their share-houses were unhomely, and iterated a range of ways in which they actively made their share-houses homes. Certainly, recent research in Britain (Heath and Cleaver 2003) and Australia (McNamara and Connell 2007) demonstrates that young people's inner-city share-houses are considered 'homely homes' by their residents. But this work has not explicitly considered the role of young men in homemaking in share-houses.…”

Section: Twentysomething Guys: Masculinities In Share-housingmentioning

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“…Two of the young men lived in share-housing; their spatial stories provide insights into masculine subjectivities in a common household form for young people in inner-city Sydney (McNamara and Connell 2007). Simon is 24 years old, Anglo-Australian, university-qualified and works in a government agency.…”

Section: Twentysomething Guys: Masculinities In Share-housingmentioning

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Twentysomethings and twentagers: subjectivities, spaces and young men at home

Gorman‐Murray

2014

Gender, Place & Culture

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This article examines young men's (aged 18 -25 years) meanings of home and practices of homemaking, comprising material and social relations. The discussion contributes to three areas of geographical interest: home, masculinities and youth. Both geographies of home and masculinities have begun to consider men's experiences and meanings of home, but young men's domestic practices remain largely unexamined. Geographical work on youth has examined housing transitions, but the gendered experiences of young men need further interrogation. To provide insight into young men's homemaking, this article presents qualitative case studies drawn from fieldwork that investigated relations between masculinities and domesticities in Sydney, Australia. Young men are arguably out-of-place at home in conventional discourses of gender and space, but homes are nevertheless crucial sites for shaping masculine subjectivities. Masculinities and homes are co-constituted through domestic practices, generating diverse intersectional subjectivities and spaces. In this article, three subjectivity-space, or masculine-domestic, relations are discussed, which also counter the centring of heterosexual couple family homes in domestic imaginaries: young men in parental homes, share-housing and 'alternative' family homes. I examine similarities and differences across and within these masculine domesticities. This multiplicity of 'youthful masculine domesticities' offers a set of qualitative examples for use in public rhetoric that seeks to redress uneven gender dynamics in contemporary domestic life.

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Homeward Bound? Searching for home in Inner Sydney's share houses

Cited by 55 publications

References 22 publications

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Keeping it in the family? Re-focusing household sustainability

Young adult households and domestic sustainabilities

Twentysomethings and twentagers: subjectivities, spaces and young men at home

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