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Sociology of Home
Belonging, Community, and Place in the Canadian Context
Edited by Gillian Anderson, Joseph G. Moore, Laura Suski
December 2016
Print ISBN: 9781551309392
Overview
The first Canadian collection of its kind, Sociology of Home draws on sociological approaches to family, urban and rural communities, and migration and immigration to discuss the idea of “home”—an intensely personal concept that is, in its varying iterations, bound to larger economic and political systems.
Moving from private homemaking to community building and political ecology, authors investigate home as a constructed space within the context of a diverse set of cultural, political, built, and natural landscapes that ground Canadian experiences. This comprehensive introductory reader explores a diversity of homes and homemaking and is an important contribution to the sociological studies of home, family, environment, gender, and social inequality.
Features
- looks at geographic contexts across Canada, including Vancouver, St. John’s, and the North
- includes contributions from gendered, class-based, racialized, and Indigenous perspectives
- features work by new and established scholars
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: For a Sociology of Home in Canada
PART ONE: HOME AS DOMESTIC SPACE
Chapter 1: Living the Domestic Interior: Seven Characters in Search of Home in Vancouver, 2008–2010
Kathy Mezei, with Margaret Archibald, Patrick Chan, Emily Fedoruk, Kay
Higgins, Fran Moore, and Jillian Povarchook
Chapter 2: Mundane Technology in Non-Western Contexts: Wall-as-Tool
Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Chapter 3: Condo: The New Structure of Housing
Alan O'Connor
Chapter 4: Private Suburban Home: The Phantasmagoric Interior and the Ghostly Individual
Ondine Park
PART TWO: NOT AT HOME: HOMEMAKING ON THE MARGINS
Chapter 5: At the Threshold: Domesticity and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886–1923
Shelly Ikebuchi
Chapter 6: Negotiating Family Relationships in the “Home”: Examining Constructions of Home for Youth-in-care in Greater Victoria
Kate Butler
Chapter 7: Low Income Lone Mothers and “Home”: The Importance of Social Relations
Amber Gazso
Chapter 8: Lacking the Safeguards of Home: Experiences of Youth Homelessness
Jennifer L. Robinson
PART THREE: HOME BEYOND HOME: NEIGHBOURHOOD AND COMMUNITY
Chapter 9: Home is More than a Shelter: The Experience of Housing Space and the Processes of Exclusion
Renaud Goyer
Chapter 10: Outside of the Planners’ Gaze: Community and Space in the Centre of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1945 to 1966
John Phyne and Christine Knott
Chapter 11: Car Free Day! Urban Homemaking Projects and the Neighbourhood Politics of Home
Joseph G. Moore
Chapter 12: Seasonal Tiny House Living, Simplicity, and Perceptions of Authenticity
Tracey Harris
Conclusions: Homemaking and a Future for the Sociology of Home
Contributor Biographies
