UID:
almahu_9949386956202882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781000181807
,
1000181804
,
9781000184983
,
1000184986
,
9781003085591
,
1003085598
,
9781000188431
,
1000188434
Serie:
Home
Inhalt:
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 professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.
Anmerkung:
1 Introduction2 Making homes3 Working with Materiality4 Doing it Yourself5 Not Doing it Yourself6 Home improvement and national identity7 Materiality, inequality and the homeyness of home8 ConclusionBibliogrpahy
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0367774836
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780367774837
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781474239301
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1474239307
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003085591
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