To Be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World - Couverture rigide

Williams; James; Hentschke; Felicitas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3110579871 ISBN 13 : 9783110579871

Editeur : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2018

Synopsis

Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people`s creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts – if also often elusive – invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity – and continue to change today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Felicitas Hentschke, Humboldt University James Williams, Zayed University

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3110579871
• ISBN 13: 9783110579871
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 279
• Éditeur: Williams James / Hentschke Felicitas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible