Home: ethnographic encounters

by Lenhard, Johannes Samanani, Farhan

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Full title :Home : ethnographic encounters / edited by Johannes Lenhard and Farhan Samanani.

Summary

How are notions of 'home' made and negotiated by ethnographers? And how does the researcher relate to forms of home encountered during fieldwork? Rather than searching for an abstract, philosophical understanding of home, this collection asks how home gains its meaning and significance through ongoing efforts to create, sustain or remake a sense of home. The volume explores how researchers and informants alike are always involved in the process of making and unmaking home, and challenges readers to reimagine ethnographic practice in terms of active, morally complex process of home-making. Contributions reach across the globe and across social contexts, and the book includes chapters on council housing and middle-class apartment buildings, homelessness and migration, problems with accessing the field as well as limiting it, physical as well as sentimental notions of home, and objects as well as inter-human social relations. Home draws attention to processes of sociality that normally remain analytically invisible, and contributes to a growing and rich field of study on the anthropology of home.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

Notes

"First published 2020 by Bloomsbury Academic."

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781003085577, 1003085571, 9781000189179, 1000189171, 9781000182545, 1000182541, 9781000185720, 1000185729
DOI:10.4324/9781003085577
oclc:on1155637876
LC Classification:GN414
Dewey Decimal:306.4

AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsPreface, Steve Gudeman, University of Minnesota, USA0. Introduction: Ethnography, Dwelling and Home-Making, Johannes Lenhard, University of Cambridge, UK and Farhan Samanani, University of Oxford, UK 1. Studying Gay Sex in Beirut: The Lascivious Suture of Home/Field, Mathew Gagné, University of Toronto, Canada 2. Curtains, Cars, and Privacy: Experiences of Dwelling and Home-Making in Azerbaijan, Sascha Roth, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany 3. A Lonely Home: Balancing Intimacy and Estrangement in the Field, Nikita Simpson, London School of Economics, UK4. Ethnography of Police 'Domestic Abuse' Interventions: Ethico-Methodological Reflections, Faten Khazaei, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland5. Digging Holes, Posting Signs, Loading Guns: Constructing Home in Grand Canyon, Arizona, Susannah Crockford, Ghent University, Belgium6. Becoming a Planner: Participation and Anticipation in Producing Home, Martin Fuller, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany7. Making a Home with Homeless People, Johannes Lenhard, University of Cambridge, UK8. A Threshold Space - Connecting a Home in the City with the City, Max Ott, TU Muenchen, Germ…