The Embarrassment of Co-Presence: AU Pairs and their Rooms

Búriková, Zuzana Sekeráková

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“…There exists a body of literature on multicultural gendered relationships in the private home from research on au pairs (e.g., Búriková 2006;Cox and Narula 2003;Rohde-Abuba and Tkach 2016), to migrant domestic workers (e.g., Anderson 2000;Hochschild 2000;Näre 2011), which addressed classed and ethnicised power positions in the shared home as well as drawing intimate and spatial boundaries. Next, I examine how power relations affect the way the space of home is shared in the home accommodation of asylum seekers.…”

Section: Power Relations and Boundaries In The Shared Homementioning

confidence: 99%

Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland

Merikoski¹

2019

Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration

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Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland

Merikoski¹

2019

Contested Hospitalities in a Time of Migration

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“…For him, having a window that looked directly into his room from the kitchen felt akin to inviting strangers into the intimacy of his bedroom, contradicting perhaps how the shared spaces of the flat might be framed. Robert's experience of emotional corporeality amplifies Búriková's (2006) "embarrassment of co-presence" (118), whereby sharers retreat into the solitude of the bedroom, particularly if privacy appears compromised. But there is more than just bodywork at play here.…”

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A place for sharing: The emotional geographies of peer-sharing in UK University halls of residences

Holton

2017

Emotion, Space and Society

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Our homes are important spaces through which emotions are produced, performed and regulated. They carry significant material and symbolic value and are inscribed with meaning and belonging that are often crucial in shaping and (re)producing collective and individual identities. Yet while research has explored the role of the home in the co-production of familial values, networks and behaviours, less is understood of the emotional geographies of accommodation occupied by non-related adultsdefined here as 'peer-sharing'. This paper responds to this gap by exploring how peer-shared living-spaces are emotionally constructed through a case study of students living in a UK university's halls of residences. In doing so, this paper examines how (1) the morphology of shared living-spaces contributes towards the production of sharers' emotions, (2) emotions become inscribed upon home-spaces through place-making activities and (3) diversity is enacted through the emotional work of sharers and how this is performed through friendship in shared living-spaces. This analysis concludes by emphasising the important role of emotions in coproducing different spaces, activities, knowledges and experiences among peersharers and how peer-sharing might be both performed in and influenced by living spaces.

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“…Indeed, "kinship is made in houses" (Carsten 2004: 35) and through the material objects they contain (Makovicky 2007: 288). At the same time, the distancing of oneself from present surroundings by a refusal to engage in creating domesticity through acts of decoration can occur amongst those for whom the domestic space is not and cannot be their own (Burikova 2006;Parrott 2005). At the same time, the distancing of oneself from present surroundings by a refusal to engage in creating domesticity through acts of decoration can occur amongst those for whom the domestic space is not and cannot be their own (Burikova 2006;Parrott 2005).…”

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Homemaking, Homebuilding, and the Significance of Place and Kin in Rural Kyrgyzstan

Reynolds¹

2012

Home Cultures

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In rural Kyrgfyzstan, homes built by their owners house multigenerational families and are filled with objects that have been bought, made, acquired, and received. Many of them come as gifts cementing alliances with other families through marriage. This article discusses how kelin (daughtersin-law) and their families negotiate aspects of themselves and their relationships through interactions with these objects and places of domesticity. Many studies of Central Asia identify patrilineage and land as major factors in the constitution and experience of kinship and personhood. This article shows how the home provides an interesting alternative site for the examination of these. It is a perspective. X REBECCA REYNOLDSmoreover, that is vital when women's experience is relatively overlooked. Ethnographic fieldwork with households in Kyrgyzstan is drawn on to discuss the significance of domestic places and domestic objects for daughters-in-law. It highlights the negotiation of personhood outside the more discursively powerful locations such as lineage, place, and geographical region. It does so through focusing on ways of experiencing, envisioning and creating old and new homes, arguing that these are intimately connected to personhood. It is suggested that homebuilding can be understood as an explicit narration of self, while daily interaction with objects in the home is a more implicit form of self-expression and negotiation.

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The Embarrassment of Co-Presence: AU Pairs and their Rooms

Cited by 20 publications

References 12 publications

Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland

Hospitality, reciprocity, and power relations in the home accommodation of asylum seekers in Finland

A place for sharing: The emotional geographies of peer-sharing in UK University halls of residences

Homemaking, Homebuilding, and the Significance of Place and Kin in Rural Kyrgyzstan

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