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This exciting series responds to the growing interest in the home as an area of research and teaching. Highly interdisciplinary, titles feature contributions from across the social sciences, including anthropology, material culture studies, architecture and design, sociology, gender studies, migration studies, and environmental studies. Relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers, the series consolidates the home as a field of study.
Unhomely England in Post-Imperial British Novels
1st Edition
By Soody Gholami
January 22, 2026
This book investigates the nature of ‘home’ and nation in post-imperial British novels, which deal with the loss of Empire and its uncanny presence ‘at home’. It delves into histories of British colonialism, the ‘end’ of the Empire, decolonisation, post-Second World War nation-building, and ...
Rendering Houses in Ladakh
1st Edition
By Sophie Day
November 28, 2024
Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth ‘house portraits’ are selected for the insight they provide into major regional ...
Why We Build With Brick
1st Edition
By Felicity Cannell
November 28, 2024
This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It investigates why, despite an increasing number of alternative materials, brick remains at the forefront of what people, in the UK in particular, expect ...
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care
1st Edition
By Melisa Duque
October 07, 2024
Designing Homeliness: Everyday Practices of Care proposes an interdisciplinary lens to investigate home. The book situates homeliness as a continual process of creating, maintaining, and restoring meanings and experiences of home. Melisa Duque draws from her design ethnographic practice with people...
The Growing Trend of Living Small: A Critical Approach to Shrinking Domesticities
1st Edition
Edited
By Ella Harris, Mel Nowicki, Tim White
August 26, 2024
This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of stuff within them, is increasingly sold as a...
Reading Home Cultures Through Books
1st Edition
Edited
By Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Marija Dalbello
September 25, 2023
This wide-ranging, comparative, and multidisciplinary collection addresses the significance of books in creating the idea of home. The chapters present cases that reveal the affective and sensory dimensions of books and reading in the practice of everyday life of individuals, in communities, and in...
Globalising Housework: Domestic Labour in Middle-class London Homes,1850-1914
1st Edition
By Laura Humphreys
January 09, 2023
This book shows how international influences profoundly shaped the ‘English’ home of Victorian and Edwardian London; homes which, in turn, influenced Britain’s (and Britons’) place on the world stage. The period between 1850 and 1914 was one of fundamental global change, when London homes were ...
Ethnographies of Home and Mobility: Shifting Roofs
1st Edition
By Alejandro Miranda Nieto, Aurora Massa, Sara Bonfanti
April 29, 2022
This book lays out a framework for understanding connections between home and mobility, and situates this within a multidisciplinary field of social research. The authors show how the idea of home offers a privileged entry point into forced migration, diversity and inequality. Using original ...
Food Identities at Home and on the Move: Explorations at the Intersection of Food, Belonging and Dwelling
1st Edition
Edited
By Raul Matta, Charles-Edouard de Suremain, Chantal Crenn
December 13, 2021
How does food restore the fragmented world of migrants and the displaced? What similar processes are involved in challenging, maintaining or reinforcing divisions between groups coexisting in the same living place? Food Identities at Home and on the Move examines how ‘home’ is negotiated around ...
Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home
1st Edition
By Gregory Salter
June 30, 2021
In this book, Gregory Salter traces how artists represented home and masculinities in the period of social and personal reconstruction after the Second World War in Britain. Salter considers home as an unstable entity at this historical moment, imbued with the optimism and hopes of post-war ...
Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK
1st Edition
By Rosie Cox
May 31, 2021
This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by ...
A Cultural History of Twin Beds
1st Edition
By Hilary Hinds
March 31, 2021
A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangement for married couples between 1870 and 1970. Modern preconceptions of the twin bed revolve around ...