Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, Dwelling - Couverture souple

Gregson, Nicky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907774076 ISBN 13 : 9781907774072

Editeur : Sean Kingston Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

This major work addresses central concerns of consumption studies, the sociology of the contemporary home and family, and material culture studies. It focuses on an issue of concern to all: how do we negotiate the movement of things, so as to make our homes 'accommodating' to our families? Based on ethnographic study conducted, primarily, in a former coal-mining village in North east England, the book explores a number of practices of inhabitation, from the relatively exceptional, such as moving in or being modernised, to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it 'comes home' and is positioned not in sites of exchange but within the home and in households. In so doing, Gregson reveals how homes, identities and social relations are made as much by disposal as by acquisition of things.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nicky Gregson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield and the lead author of Servicing the Middle Classes; Second-hand Cultures; and Feminist Geographies. She is the PI and Director of The Waste of the World Programme, a collaboration between her own University, Goldsmith University of London, University College London and Durham University, which aims to rethink how waste is thought about in the social sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sean Kingston Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907774076
• ISBN 13: 9781907774072
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 202
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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