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About the Book Series
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.
Homely Atmospheres and Lighting Technologies in Denmark: Living with Light
1st Edition
By Mikkel Bille
March 30, 2021
Using case studies, such as the use of candlelight and energy saving lightbulbs in Denmark, this book unravels light’s place at the heart of social life. In contrast to common perception of light as a technical and aesthetic phenomenon, Mikkel Bille argues that there is a cultural and social logic ...
Thinking Home: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanja Bahun, Bojana Petric
June 30, 2020
Thinking Home challenges and extends the existing scholarship on the subject of ‘home’ in a period which has seen unprecedented levels of movement cross the globe. Sanja Bahun and Bojana Petric have collated essays that revisit existing ideas to introduce new ways of thinking on home, from the ...
Living with Strangers: Bedsits and Boarding Houses in Modern English Life, Literature and Film
1st Edition
Edited
By Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei
November 28, 2019
Living with Strangers examines the history and cultural representation of bed-sitting rooms and boarding houses in England from the early twentieth century to the present. Providing a historical overview, the authors explore how these alternative domestic spaces came to provide shelter for a ...
Queering the Interior
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Gorman-Murray, Matt Cook
May 30, 2019
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of ‘home’. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer people.Each of the book’s six sections focuses on a different room or space inside the home. The journey...
Making Homes: Ethnography and Design
1st Edition
By Sarah Pink, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Roxana Morosanu, Val Mitchell, Tracy Bhamra
May 18, 2017
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches...