Sociology of home
Subtitle: belonging, community, and place in the Canadian context
By: edited by Gillian Anderson, Joseph G. Moore, and Laura Suski
Publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781551309392; 9781551309408; 9781551309415
Subjects: Home; Social aspects; Dwellings; Social conditions
Description: "The spaces we inhabit and call home exact a profound influence on our public and private lives. This original collection is the first to explore sociological analyses of home in Canada, drawing upon studies of family, urban and rural communities, and migration and immigration to interrogate the idea of home as a powerful site of identity, community, and belonging. Organized into three parts, the text examines how we conceive of home at the levels of personal homemaking, neighborhood community, and political ecology. The authors, both new and established scholars, address the diversity of homes and lived experiences across Canada, from apartment dwellers in downtown Vancouver to a remote Inuit community in Nunavut. The edited collection looks at contemporary housing phenomena such as "tiny homes" and condos, considers historical case studies, and includes chapters on youth homelessness and homemaking in marginalized communities. A unique contribution to the field, Sociology of Home draws upon a plurality of standpoints, including gendered, class-based, racialized, and Indigenous voices. This engaging text is an ideal resource for sociology students enrolled in courses on home, community, family, urban sociology, environment, gender, and social inequality, and will be of interest to anyone who seeks to investigate home as an important symbolic and material construct."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Part one: home as domestic space.; title: Living with the domestic interior: seven characteristics in search of home in Vancouver, 2008-2010  -- Kathy Mezei, with Margaret Archibald, Patrick Chan, Emily Fedoruk, Kay Higgins, Fran Moore, and Jillian Povarchook; title: Mundane technology in non-western contexts: wall-as-tool  -- Lisa-Jo van den Scott; title: Condo: the new structure of housing  -- Alan O'Connor; title: Private suburban home: the phantasmagoric interior and the ghostly individual  -- Ondine Park -- Part two: not at home: homemaking on the margins.; title: At the threshold: domesticity and Victoria's Chinese rescue home, 1886-1923  -- Shelly Ikebuchi; title: Negotiating family relationships in the "home": examining constructions of home for youth-in-care in greater Victoria  -- Kate Butler; title: Low-income lone mothers and "home": the importance of social relations  -- Amber Gazso; title: Lacking the safeguards of home: experiences of youth homelessness  -- Jennifer L. Robinson -- Part three: home beyond home: neighbourhood and community.; title: Home is more than a shelter: the experience of housing space and the processes of exclusion  -- Renaud Goyer; title: Outside of the planner's gaze: community and space in the centre of St. John's, Newfoundland, 1945-1966  -- John Phyne and Christine Knott; title: Car free day! Urban homemaking projects and the neighbourhood politics of home  -- Joseph G. Moore; title: Seasonal tiny house living, simplicity, and perceptions of authenticity -- Tracey Harris.