Sociology of home : belonging, community, and place in the Canadian context / edited by Gillian Anderson, Joseph G. Moore, and Laura Suski.

"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 th...

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Main Author: Moore, Joseph G., 1966- (Author, Editor)
Other Authors: Anderson, Gillian, 1972- (Editor), Suski, Laura, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto, Ontario : Canadian Scholars' Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part one: home as domestic space. 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
  • Mundane technology in non-western contexts: wall-as-tool / Lisa-Jo van den Scott
  • Condo: the new structure of housing / Alan O'Connor
  • Private suburban home: the phantasmagoric interior and the ghostly individual / Ondine Park Part two: not at home: homemaking on the margins. At the threshold: domesticity and Victoria's Chinese rescue home, 1886-1923 / Shelly Ikebuchi
  • Negotiating family relationships in the "home": examining constructions of home for youth-in-care in greater Victoria / Kate Butler
  • Low-income lone mothers and "home": the importance of social relations / Amber Gazso
  • Lacking the safeguards of home: experiences of youth homelessness / Jennifer L. Robinson Part three: home beyond home: neighbourhood and community. Home is more than a shelter: the experience of housing space and the processes of exclusion / Renaud Goyer
  • Outside of the planner's gaze: community and space in the centre of St. John's, Newfoundland, 1945-1966 / John Phyne and Christine Knott
  • Car free day! Urban homemaking projects and the neighbourhood politics of home / Joseph G. Moore
  • Seasonal tiny house living, simplicity, and perceptions of authenticity / Tracey Harris.