To be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern WorldJames Williams, Felicitas Hentschke Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 24/09/2018 - 301 من الصفحات 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. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Homes and Mobility Borders Boundaries Thresholds | 10 |
Hostel Home and LifeRhythm for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall | 19 |
Childrens Lives in an IDP Camp | 23 |
Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic | 29 |
Houses Work and Everyday Life Rhythms Ruptures Cycles | 36 |
HomeMaking among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara | 45 |
Living in Homes but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in NineteenthCentury Central Europe | 49 |
Houses and Selves Nostalgia Imagination Memory | 134 |
Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assiss Dom Casmurro | 143 |
The Homeless Seafarer | 148 |
The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration | 154 |
Networks Neighborhoods Communities | 162 |
The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German WorkingClass Housing around 1900 | 170 |
The Chawl and the Slum | 175 |
German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees | 181 |
Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields South Africa | 56 |
The Changing Place of Girls Work in Chinese and European History | 62 |
Construction Demolition Relocation | 70 |
From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe | 80 |
Italian Migrant Workers Families in Lorraine | 85 |
Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town | 90 |
The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng | 95 |
The Power of Place Space Exclusions Vulnerability | 102 |
Welfare Homes in India | 110 |
A Cautionary Tale from Botswana | 115 |
The Coolie Pondok | 120 |
Slavery and Domestic Labor in a NineteenthCentury East African Caravan Town | 125 |
Being at Home in the World Thinking with Houses and Homes | 190 |
To Be at Home after Death | 199 |
Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes | 204 |
The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore | 210 |
Reflections I | 216 |
Reflections II | 226 |
An Interview with Alf Lüdtke | 234 |
Reflections III | 242 |
Contributor Biographies | 253 |
Picture Credits | 257 |
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