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Objectives: Researchers have reported close links between forgiveness and positive life outcomes for people of all age groups. The study explored the perceived transgressions and forgiveness of the elders using a qualitative research design. Design and Methods: Narrative qualitative research design was employed. The semi-structured interview was used to collect data of 10 elders of old-age homes (Mean age = 67.20, SD = 4.57) and 12 elders residing with their families (Mean age = 69.33, SD = 4.21) which were analysed through thematic analysis. Results: Severe loss, serious neglect and cheating were the major perceived transgressions of the old-age home elders whereas day-today issues characterized the perceived transgressions of the family elders. Pseudo-forgiveness was observed in the elders of old-age home because of helplessness and their fear of losing respect while affiliation, perceived harm, the realisation of offence, and perceived consequences of punishment were precursors for the forgiveness in family-living elders. Both the groups acknowledged the role of offence, intention, relationships, attributions and commitment to socio-cultural and moral values in forgiveness.

How do young people living in residential care perceive their environment? How do they experience the sights, sounds, smell and feel of living in an institution? How may attachment to place contribute to the wellbeing of young people? This paper explores meanings of home in domestic and regulated (institutional) environments from the perspective of young people and staff living and working in a residential children's home in England. Drawing on a pilot study using visual participatory research methods adapted from the Mosaic approach (Clark, 2011), the study identifies what young people and staff considered important about the place where residents lived. Using photographs and commentary, three conceptual themes are discussed: the home as institutional space; the home as 'practices'; and home as idealised space. The paper raises questions as to how ways of 'doing home' can be supported in these liminal spaces that strive to be both domestic and institutional.

Cílem práce je zaplnění mezery v současném vědění o tuzemské residenční suburbanizaci: Přestože se v posledních letech objevila řada především sociálně geografických studií suburbánního prostředí, pohled samotných obyvatel nově postavených domů a ulic v jeho vědeckých reprezentacích téměř chybí. Jak vnímají, prožívají a interpretují lidé žijící v rychle se rozrůstajících obcích jejich proměnu? Jaké kvality lidé v novém prostředí hledají, jaké nacházejí? Jak reflektují proces rozhodování, stěhování a zabydlování v novém místě? A jak jejich příchod ovlivňuje život obyvatel, kteří se přistěhovali či v obci bydleli před nimi?
Skrze analýzu narativů vytvořených v rámci kvalitativních rozhovorů, jsem se snažila porozumět: 1) zkušenosti s fenoménem suburbanizace, s bydlením v suburbanizovaných oblastech. Přestože na prvním místě mé výzkumné otázky stálo porozumění zkušenosti, vnímám a sleduji tuto zkušenost jako relační, vztahovou. Zajímají mne tedy: 2) interpretace pozic participantů a jejich jednání a také, jak interpretují jednání a pozice ostatních aktérů (jak se k sobě vztahují, jaké pozice vůči sobě zaujímají, jak jsou v jejich výpovědích konstruovány kategorie osob a hranice mezi nimi a jak se tyto vztahují k jejich jednání).
Práce je rozdělena tři hlavní části. V teoretickém oddíle pojednávám o vývoji suburbanizace, nikoliv však prostřednictvím sledování jejího rozsahu či komparace různých zemí, ale spíše ji sleduji jako historicky ukotvený fenomén, který úzce souvisí s proměnami kultury bydlení i s proměnou společenských norem a vztahů na obecnější úrovni. Nejprve se zaměřuji na fenomén suburbanizace v jeho historickém kontextu, dále na teorii sociálních sítí a představení konceptu komunity a sousedství, jejich vztah k místu a prostoru a jejich specifickému použití ve studiích suburbánního prostředí. Prostor věnuji také kulturní teorii sociálních a symbolických hranic, relační teorii a jejich využití při interpretaci suburbanizace jako určitého vzorce spotřeby, výrazu vkusu a sociální distinkce. Přehled zakončuji představením studií reprezentací suburbanizace v populární (především americké filmové) kultuře, zdrojům i zrcadlení specifické suburbánní imaginace. Ukazuji, jak její silně stereotypizovaný negativní obraz slouží jako oblíbené a významné označované, tak zároveň jako označující pro kontradiktorní povahu západní modernity. Samostatná podkapitola je věnována také výzkumu fenoménu suburbanizace v České republice a také ve středoevropském prostoru s důrazem na vymezení hlavních linií dosavadního bádání. Historický kontext prostoru vlastního empirického šetření je stručně představen v kapitole o vývoji města Brna a jeho předměstí, hlavních populačních změnách, které ovlivňují také současnou situaci, historickém formování suburbánního typu výstavby.
V metodologické části práce pak popisuji vlastní terénní šetření, jež mělo podobu 37 nestrukturovaných hloubkových rozhovorů s vybranými residenty okrajových brněnských městských částí či příměstských obcí, a to jak s jejich oficiálními reprezentanty, nově příchozími i stávajícími obyvateli. Představuji dvě hlavní fáze výzkumu a proměnu jeho zaměření směrem od případových studií ke zkoumání individuální zkušenosti, a také od tematické analýzy k analýze narativů.
Ve třetím a čtvrtém oddíle prezentuji výsledky vlastního kvalitativního výzkumu. Nejprve se věnuji „narativům touhy“ – ukazuji, jaké hodnoty jsou pro nově příchozí obyvatele s jejich prostředím spojeny (příroda a krajina, bezpečí, čistota, svoboda atp.), jak interpretují své potřeby a svá rozhodnutí a také celý proces hledání nového místa bydlení a zabydlování se v něm. Následuje část „narativů soužití“, v níž se zaměřuji na vztahy mezi různými skupinami obyvatel v obcích tak, jak se objevily v hloubkových rozhovorech, sleduji formování lokálních identit, vzájemné označování a kategorizace obyvatel a jejich důsledky pro život v dotčených obcích, skrze jejich interpretace v rámci výzkumných rozhovorů. Zabývám se tedy vnímáním a prožíváním dynamického procesu vznikání nových pospolitostí s ohledem na jejich fungování ve vztahu k širším významovým, normativním a společenským strukturám.

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The aim of my work is to fill the gap in current knowledge on residential suburbanisation in the Czech context. Despite the fact that in recent years a number of social-geographic studies of the suburban environment have appeared, the view from the perspective of the inhabitants of the newly built houses and streets is in these scientific representations still almost missing. How do people living in the fast-growing municipalities perceive, experience and interpret their transformation? What are the qualities they seek in the new environment? How do they reflect the decision-making process, the process of moving in, inhabitation and accommodation in the new location? And how does their arrival affect the life of the people who moved there or lived in the village before them?
Through the analysis of narratives created within the framework of qualitative interviews, I sought to understand: 1) the experience of the phenomenon of suburbanisation. Even though my primary aim was to understand the experience, I trace and perceive it as relational. I was also interested in: 2) the interpretation of the position of the participants and their practices, and also, how they interpret the positions and practices of other actors (what discursive positions they occupy against each other and how, in their narratives, are constructed and negotiated the social and the boundaries between them).
The work is divided into three main parts. In the theoretical section, I deal with the development of suburbanisation, however, not through the monitoring of its extent or by a comparison of the situation in different countries. Instead, I approach it as a historically anchored phenomenon, which is closely linked with changing housing cultures as well as with social norms and relationships on a more general level.
Firstly, I focus on the phenomenon of suburbanisation in its historical context. I then deal with the theory of social networks and the concept of community and neighbourhood, their relationship to place and space and their specific use in studies of the suburban environment. I am also concerned with the cultural theory of the formation of social and symbolic borders, relational theory and their use in the interpretation of suburbanisation as a particular pattern of consumption – the expression of taste and distinction. I conclude the theoretical overview with the presentation of studies focused on the representation of suburbia in popular culture (especially in American movies), on the sources and mirroring of specific suburban imagination. I demonstrate how this negative stereotypical image serves as a popular and important signifier and at the same time as a signified for the contradictory nature of Western modernity. A separate chapter is dedicated to research on the phenomenon of suburbanisation in the Czech Republic and in Central Europe, with an emphasis on defining the main lines of recent inquiries.
In the methodological part of the thesis, I describe my own experience from fieldwork, which took the form of 37 in-depth, unstructured interviews with 46 residents in peripheral parts of the city of Brno or peri-urban communities. Interviews were conducted both with official representatives of the municipalities and with newcomers as well as current residents. I present two main phases of the research and elaborate the way in which I changed my focus from case studies to a more detailed examination of individual experiences and from thematic analysis to analysis of the narratives.
The third and the fourth parts of the manuscript are dedicated to the qualitative research results. First, I present "narratives of desire", showing what values and features of the new environment newcomers seek (nature and landscape, safety, purity, freedom, etc.), how they interpret their needs and their decisions to move, as well as the entire process of searching for a new place of residence and its accommodation. Next, "narratives of coexistence" present perceptions of the relations between different population groups in the municipalities, as they appeared in the in-depth interviews. I follow the formation of local identities, mutual identification and categorisation of the inhabitants and the consequences for social life in the study’s municipalities. Thus, I show the perceptions and experiences of the dynamic process of the formation of new communities with respect to their functioning in relation to the wider semantic, normative and social structures.

In her 1990 text “homeplace (a site of resistance),” bell hooks argues that for black women throughout history, the making of home cannot be extricated from the struggle against racism and forging of community. This paper explores how artists who occupy tenuous subject positions as immigrants, people of color, and female engage with home-making. Instead of examining home as an object, I engage with home-making as an action that is shifting and provisional. Using philosophical, sociological, and anthropological constructs of “home” as points of departure, I turn toward the domestic projects of visual artists Amanda Williams, Mona Hatoum, and Doris Salcedo. In Color(ed) Theory (2015), Amanda Williams repaints and reconstructs vacant urban homes in such a way that demonstrates the persistent presence of the human even beyond its bodily inhabitation of home’s hallowed halls. Mona Hatoum’s installations Homebound (2001) and Mobile Home (2005) fold the alien and violent into domestic objects that defy being fixed to domestic architectures. Doris Salcedo’s La Casa Viuda (1995) and other untitled sculptures transform doors, dressers, and wardrobes with concrete, dust and bone in response to the flights of Colombian women from their homes and vacillate between tracing memories of the past and
being haunted by premonitions of violence, evacuation, and ruination with the ongoing passage of time. In the works of these three artists, the binary between homely and unhomely comes apart, and homemaking becomes the act of inhabiting or embodying something that shifts, accommodating for a wider range of experiences in how one constitutes self in relation to one's environments.

Co wiemy o polskich parach mieszkających razem bez ślubu? Tekst oferuje krótkie podsumowanie wiedzy płynącej z dotychczasowych badań ilościowych, wzbogacając je o wyniki badań przeprowadzonych w 2011 roku w Poznaniu. Przy tej okazji, omówione zostają problemy tego typu badań i pułapki na poziomie zbierania oraz intepretowania danych. Stają się one tym bardziej widoczne, jeśli przyjrzymy się wynikom badań jakościowych pochodzących z Warszawy i Poznania, zaprezentowanych w drugiej części artykułu. Pokazują one, że obok mieszkania razem istnieją liczne formy „pomieszkiwania” oraz różne stosowane przez pary intymne sposoby oddzielania od siebie kolejnych etapów instytucjonalizacji związku. Dzielenie przestrzeni i materialności jest doświadczeniem i etapem rozwoju będącym udziałem bardzo wielu związków, jednocześnie jednak istotnym punktem odniesienia jest dla nich ceremonia ślubu, która ma „przypieczętować” związek oraz dokonane wybory, nadać mu społeczną legitymizację oraz „wyczyścić” wcześniejszy etap mieszkania razem z cechujących go ambiwalencji.

This article, based on an analysis of the Survey of Convicted Prisoners from eight Latin American countries, helps to expand knowledge about the association between victimization in childhood and the criminal behavior of individuals who have been incarcerated. The results of the multivariate regression models show that having grown up in a home in which the father/partner beat the mother (indirect violence) mainly affects women when it comes to future criminal behavior (both their likelihood of being repeat offenders and of having possessed firearms). / A partir del análisis de la Encuesta de Presos Condenados de ochos países de América Latina, el artículo contribuye a expandir el conocimiento sobre la asociación entre la victimización en la infancia y la conducta delictiva de los individuos privados de libertad. Los resultados de los modelos de regresión multivariada muestran que haber crecido en un hogar en donde el padre/pareja le pegaba a la madre (violencia indirecta) afecta principalmente a las mujeres en relación con su conducta delictiva (tanto en lo que respecta a su probabilidad de ser reincidentes como a la tenencia de armas de fuego). A la vez, se pone de manifiesto que haber sido víctima directa de maltrato es un factor que afecta tanto a mujeres como a varones en lo que respecta a la posibilidad de reincidir, pero en mayor proporción a los varones cuando se trata de la tenencia de armas de fuego. El artículo sugiere que las intervenciones orientadas a la prevención deben tener en cuenta estas diferencias de género para alcanzar una mayor efectividad. Las mujeres parecen estar afectadas por ambos tipos de victimización en la infancia, lo que conlleva a considerar que las estrategias de intervención para la población femenina deben estar orientadas en atender las dos modalidades de violencia (directa e indirecta). En cambio, las intervenciones en virtud de la prevención de conductas delictivas masculinas podrían focalizarse específicamente sobre la violencia familiar directa.

Przedmiotem artykułu są relacje człowieka z przedmiotami i przestrzenią, w których realizuje się ludzkie istnienie i codzienne działanie. Omawiamy kolejno różne aspekty tych relacji: wytyczanie możliwych do pomyślenia i utrwalonych sposobów działania oraz korespondujących z nimi form więzi społecznej; aktualizowanie rutynowych schematów działania; doświadczanie i manifestowanie tożsamości. Odwołujemy się m. in. do fenomenologii Merleau-Ponty’ego oraz prac Jeana-Claude’a Kaufmanna, a jako ilustracji używamy przede wszystkim materiału zgromadzonego w badaniach form i granic ludzkiej wyobraźni i przeprowadzonych w czterech miasteczkach w Wielkopolsce.

That talk is never disinterested complicates the relationship between the environment and the claims people make about it. Talk about place, and one's self in it, is particularly complex when the environment poses risk or is otherwise problematized. This study, a secondary analysis of interview data, seeks to extend discursive work on place-identity by examining the ways in which 14 residents of a small English village talk about themselves and their locale. The locale accommodates an active quarry, and many residents had lodged complaints to the quarry about dust, noise and vibrations from blasting. Attention to the interactional context of the interviews illustrates the ways in which (simply) interviewing people about their locale can threaten self- and place-identity. When asked about life in the village, interviewees oriented to two main dilemmas in protecting self- and place-identity: (1) how to justify continued residence in a challenging environment and (2) how to complain about the locale whilst maintaining positive place-identity. Discursive responses to these dilemmas drew upon typical identity processes, such as self- and place distinctiveness and the formulation of out-groups, as well as upon constructions of localized power-sharing and morally obligated tolerance of risk. We suggest that research on problematical places, and of environmental risk, needs to be sensitized to how it may constitute a threat to self- and place-identity, and how this may mediate formulations self and place, as well as of environmental risk.

What might it mean to think of 'the single' as a potentially queer subject and in what ways does singleness pose a challenge to heteronormative conceptualizations of the lifecourse and household formation? In this paper I explore some of the contested meanings of ‘home’ for those who are single; and examine how single people have created new forms of home and new spaces of at-homeness with those with whom they are not biologically (or romantically) related. I conclude by asking how we might help foster, build and create new forms of dwelling that might better match single people’s imaginings and desires for a home outside of heteronormative coupledom. Ultimately the paper argues that the exclusion of the figure of the single is one of the key omissions in the work of those interested in challenging the geographies of exclusion and inequality.

By evaluating the language, rituals and lives of the men in eighteenth-century molly houses, and comparing them with the ideal heterosexual Georgian family home, as well as the gentlemen’s clubs of the period, this essay intends to demonstrate that molly houses can be considered 'homes'.

This article contributes to phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard’s call for topoanalysis by examining houses and inhabitation depicted in two works by American writer Louis Bromfield (1896-1956). The first work considered is “The Hands of God,” a 1939 short story that recounts the defilement of a 300-year-old Basque farmhouse. The second work considered is Bromfield’s last novel, the 1951 Mr. Smith, which depicts the unraveling, pre-World-War-II home life of Wolcott Ferris, a conventional Midwestern, middle-class husband and father. These two works demonstrate how, regularly in his creative efforts, Bromfield depicted a lived reciprocity whereby house and inhabitants mutually sustain and reflect each other, sometimes in positive ways that facilitate engagement and care; at other times, in negative ways that intimate or spur personal or social dissolution.
        The article concludes by considering implications for phenomenological research on houses and homes in the 21st century. The argument is made that, on one hand, inhabitation involves a lived whole unified by its total character. On the other hand, inhabitation involves a lived dialectic founded in a twofold significance involving internal diversity versus external connectedness. In both these inner and outer relationships, there are “sustaining” and “undermining” situations—e.g., the home as a place of comfort and regeneration versus the home as a place of unease, vulnerability, or conflict. Most broadly, the perspective argued for here looks inward toward the uniqueness of particular homes and inhabitations but also recognizes that they are integrally related outwardly to the world beyond, including other places, the broader societal context, and global interconnectedness.

This study aims to develop a language stimulation home training activity manual useful for the children with hearing impairment in the chronological age range of 2-6 years. A Quasi Experimental Research Design was chosen to undertake the present study, in which 8 Parents and 8 Special educators (Hearing impaired) were included. All subjects were having or teaching schools going severe to profound hearing impaired children in the age range of 2-6 years. Developed activity manual was given to all the subjects for 3 months reading and implementing the activity manual on their hearing impaired children. And also developed questionnaire was given to rate the manual in 4 rating scale after the reading of the activity manual. Intra-rating reliability test and analysis of the scored questionnaire was done to see the impact and usefulness of developed activity manual by the all subjects (Parents and special educators). Results of the Kendall's Tau-b test showed that there were no significant differences among two groups for the impact and usefulness of developed activity manual.

This paper draws on and extends the author’s earlier work on the history of the Daily Mail Ideal Home exhibition and suburban modernity in Britain. It contributes to historical research in material culture studies and design history on modernity and domesticity, drawing on contemporary ethnographic methodologies. It explores the ways in which new domestic technologies helped form modern identities for women as housewives and consumers in the inter-war years in Britain. It rejects functionalist critiques of domestic labour-saving technologies by feminists and Modernist design historians. It argues that for many women who lived in the new suburbs the significance of technology was in its symbolism rather than its rational claims to functionalism and efficiency. It posits that although appliances did not necessarily save labour, they enhanced the status of the task, by recognising women’s labour. It argues that domestic appliances were not just valued for their labour-saving potential; they were also valued for the images of modernity that they projected. Moreover, it argues that the motive for the acquisition of appliances could be to participate in a shared sociability.

Lusoga proverbs have a wealth of knowledge and wisdom embedded in the metaphors used. These selected proverb clusters address issues connected with humanity, family, socialization and gender equity. Above all, they address relationships between people and people, people and objects, people and plants and people and animals. The ultimate livelihood of the individual is rooted in the cultivation of the right relationships with the environment. Food, women and habits are at the center of this pedagogy and the riddle within the proverbs is enacted through the performance of these proverbs in real life thus giving them a life.

Abstract (English)
The modernist concept of life-building as an architectural method for improving the conditions of everyday life originated in Europe during the 1920s. This book explores three modes of functionalism by way of a comparative analysis of both the theoretical discourses and architectural practices associated with functionalism in Russia, Germany, and Sweden. These three countries made significant contributions to the application of functionalism within mass housing construction, the overarching purpose of which was to transform the traditional home into a rational living space.

This study provides both close readings of foundational modernist texts as well as an empirical study of the avant-garde heritage in Russia, Germany, and Sweden. As a special case study, a visual analysis of IKEA catalogues is presented, the purpose of which is to provide an illustrated history of modernist aesthetics within mass-produced living spaces, from the era of functionalism up to the present day.

Abstract (Svenska)
Det modernistiska begreppet livsbyggande, som en arkitektonisk metod för att förbättra vardagslivets villkor, uppstod i Europa under 1920-talet. Denna bok undersöker tre former av funktionalism via en komparativ analys av teoretiska diskurser såväl som arkitekturpraktiker i Ryssland, Tyskland och Sverige. Dessa tre länder gjorde viktiga bidrag till funktionalismens tillämpning inom storskalig bostadsproduktion, med det övergripande syftet att förvandla det traditionella hemmet till en rationell bostad.

Denna studie innehåller både närläsningar av grundläggande teoretiska texter inom modernismen och en empirisk studie av avantgardets arv i Ryssland, Tyskland och Sverige. En speciell fallstudie utgörs av en bildanalys av IKEA:s kataloger, med syftet att ge en historia i bild av modernismens estetik inom storskalig bostadsproduktion från funktionalismen till idag.

The global mobility of international students has a distinct geography. For international students, moving from their 'home' countries to a new country entails significant changes in their everyday lives. Moving across continents and temporarily or permanently settling in a 'foreign' land are the stepping stones to an intensely mobile existence. They maintain transnational connections with their 'home' country, and move across and between different social spaces locally, primarily with the help of friendship networks. Framing the research around theoretical underpinnings of migration, transnationalism, and (im)mobilities in the context of 'home' for Indian students in London and Toronto, the research involved 72 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 36 students, together with self-directed photography of their everyday life and solicited week-long diaries. The research has two main aims. The first is to explore the emotional, material, sensorial, and embodied nature of 'home' and their spatialities in three different spaces: the city, university, and dwelling. Second, the research aims to unearth the multi-layered nature of their socio-spatial identities through their everyday spatialities. The main findings re-instated the importance of place as experiences of the students in the spaces of the city, university, and dwelling varied (and were also similar) in London and Toronto. Also, apart from diverse sociocultural backgrounds of the Indian students, there were characteristic differences in the motivations for migration. This also pointed towards the significance of place, with London and Toronto attracting two different kinds of Indian students. Most importantly, ‘home’ was understood as processual, and simultaneously mobile, and emplaced.

This dissertation uses an interpretive and reflexive approach to analyse the 'strategic spaces' of diasporic Asian feminisms. The aim of this research is to explore how diasporic Asian feminists represent and relate their experiences to their subjectivities and feminist consciousness in Britain, North America and New Zealand. My key questions are: how has diasporic Asian feminist consciousness changed since 1987? What are the key theoretical themes, issues and debates? How do they relate their experiences to their subjectivity and consciousness? I review the published writings of feminists from Asian diasporas from 1987 to 2012 to answer these questions. I propose the significant intellectual contexts of diasporic Asian feminisms are Third World/women of colour feminisms in the US, British black feminism in the UK and hegemonic Western feminisms. The key themes and issues I found in the literature are: the politics of intersectionality; debates around cultural authenticity and essentialism; identity politics and theorising identity in diaspora; and transnationalism, globalisation and postmodernity. To understand the relationship between experience, subjectivity and feminist consciousness, I explore the different sites of feminist consciousness among diasporic Asian women and the role literacy plays in transformations of consciousness. The politicised notion of 'home' is particularly significant for understanding diasporic Asian feminisms as a set of politics. An anthropological analysis of the intersectional politics of diaspora, gender and ethnicity can increase our understanding of interactions between experience, subjectivity and feminist consciousness.

This book presents a phenomenology of EVERYDAY ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE--The sum total of peoples’ firsthand involvements with their everyday places, spaces, and environments. Through a phenomenological explication of some 1,500 personal observations provided by “environmental experience groups,” the author identifies three overarching themes—movement, rest, and encounter—that appear to mark the essential lived core of everyday environmental experience.

The section on MOVEMENT examines the habitual nature of everyday environmental behaviors and argues, after French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1962), that the lived foundation of these behaviors is the body as preconscious but intelligent subject (“body-subject”). The section on REST explores people’s attachment to place and gives particular attention to at-homeness and positive affective relationships with places and environments.

The book’s third section on ENCOUNTER considers the multifaceted ways in which people make or do not make attentive contact with their surroundings and explores such modes of awareness as obliviousness, noticing, watching, and more intense encounters.

In the book’s concluding section, the author examines the lived relationships and interconnections among movement, rest, and encounter and argues that their threefold structure offers one simple but integrated way to envision human environmental experience conceptually and to think about design and policy implications practically.

20. yüzyılın başlangıcından itibaren popüler olmaya başlayan ev kavramı, domestik hayatın merkezi olduğu için de pek çok mimarı, tasarımcıyı ve kuramcıyı etkilemiş, ev vurgulu pek çok yaklaşım geliştirilmiştir. Bu çalışmada ise Behçet Necatigil'in "Evin Hâlleri" isimli şiirinden yola çıkılmış ve ev ve insan arasındaki ilişki biçimleri, şiirin yarattığı serbest çağrışım(lar) üzerinden incelenmektedir. Şiirin çıkarımları olan ilişki biçimleri ise modern dünyada sürekli mobil olma ihtiyacımıza referans veren bir seyahat fikriyle özdeşleştirilir. Bu seyahat sırasında, insan, evin beş hâli ele alınır; yalın hâli,-de hâli,-i hâli,-e hâli,-den hâli. Yazı boyunca varlığını sürdüren serbest çağrışımlar üzerinden şekillenen kuramsal çerçeve, evin dönüşümünü, evin yuva olabilirliğini, evin içinde gizli kalanı, evin nesneleşmesini, evin hâlâ ev olup olamayacağını tartışır.

This article examines the material culture of migration, focusing on migrants’ house-making projects in their countries of birth. In particular, it examines the houses built or refurbished by Albanians in their home-country, which is no longer their place of permanent residence. This is a widespread phenomenon in Albania, but it is also a frequently appearing practice amongst other international migrants. Why do migrants living outside their home-countries build houses there even though they do not plan to return? I seek to answer this question in the case of Albania by focusing empirically on the process of constructing these houses, rather than merely on the material entity of the house
as such. I propose that such ‘house-making’ by Albanian migrants is not only a simple house-building process; it also ensures a constant dwelling and dynamic ‘proxy’ presence for
migrants in their community of origin. These ethnographic observations have further significance for the anthropological study of both houses and international migration.

This article examines the material culture of migration, focusing on migrants’ house-making projects in their countries of birth. In particular, it examines the houses built or refurbished by Albanians in their home-country, which is no longer their place of permanent residence. This is a widespread phenomenon in Albania, but it is also a frequently appearing practice amongst other international migrants. Why do migrants living outside their home-countries build houses there even though they do not plan to return? I seek to answer this question in the case of Albania by focusing empirically on the process of constructing these houses, rather than merely on the material entity of the house
as such. I propose that such ‘house-making’ by Albanian migrants is not only a simple house-building process; it also ensures a constant dwelling and dynamic ‘proxy’ presence for
migrants in their community of origin. These ethnographic observations have further significance for the anthropological study of both houses and international migration.

I argue that, although we are inherently intersubjective beings, we are not first or most originally “public” beings. Rather, to become a public being, that is, a citizen—in other words, to act as an independent and self-controlled agent in a community of similarly independent and self-controlled agents and, specifically, to do so in a shared space in the public arena—is something that we can successfully do only by emerging from our familiar, personal territories—our homes. Finding support in texts from philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, I construe the claim that citizenship is a developed stance as a spatial issue. I conclude that a state (or, for that matter, a philosophy) that takes the human being to begin as an isolated individual agent fails to recognize the essential spatial relationships on which we depend— namely, those arising through our way of being-at-home in the world; and, as a result, such a stance not only misconstrues the parameters on which citizenship is itself possible but also risks developing a social situation that encourages behaviors we see in the agoraphobic—namely, the behaviors of alienated and fundamentally homeless human beings.sjp_29 219..245

What is the difference between ‘house’ and ‘home’? This thesis grounds itself upon on that distinction. As proposed, ‘house’ refers to simply the pure physical attributes of the structure. ‘Home’, however, refers to the subjective perception and meaning placed upon these physical attributes. If a ‘house’ is how the architecture really is, a ‘home’ is how we talk and write about it.

Home is the place where self and built form collide, into an architectural representation of identity. In a way, the house is architecturally telling a narrative the same way you use the house to tell a narrative about yourself.

This thesis is a multi-part exploration of identity and home, story and perception, and the relationship between written narrative and built form in residential architecture.

Within the contents of this thesis, one will find a written parable of a fictional home, which is directly linked to the physical manifestation of the project: the exhibition. The parable examines change and evolution in the home, moralistic and material concerns, and value judgements on architectural form. It explores the way spaces, material design and detailing, and values have transformed in the suburban residential landscape, and their formal architectural implications.

The corresponding exhibition is a fractured view of this same parable: in each model, material study, or moment, one can see traces of evolution and association with each residential space, as well as the link between the narrative and formal architectural expression. The Tale of Two Houses attempts to synthesize the ideas of narrative to form, advertising, home and identity, alternative narrative structure, and suburban norms and tropes.

This thesis is a methodological exploration of identity and home, story and perception, and the relationship between written narrative and built form in residential architecture.

Let's start with some facts: the average house mouse (Mus musculus domesticus) is about 8cm long, with a tail of about the same length. It is usually brown (although it can also be white, grey or black) with short hair and a paler belly. It weighs approximately 20g, and has a high-pitched squeak. In the wild life-expectancy is approximately one year, but pet mice have been known to live for longer -up to five years.

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La pintura es una fuente esencial para la historia y un elemento revelador para la investigación sobre el papel de la mujer en la sociedad a lo largo de la historia. En este breve estudio se analiza a grandes rasgos el diálogo que se produce entre arquitectura, pintura y mujer en el paso de la Edad Moderna a la Contemporánea.

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Painting is an essential source for the history and a revealing factor for research into women´s role in society throughout history. This short study is a broad analysis of the dialogue between women, architecture and painting during the transition from the Modern to the Contemporary Era.

There is an image I can't get out of my head. It's the image of John Wayne Gacy's wife cooking dinner in a well-appointed kitchen above a crawlspace literally full of bodies. I can't shake the question of how a woman could ignore that odor, the question of how deeply in denial a person would have to be to not smell that something was wrong, to trust her husband when he excused the stench as moisture in the crawlspace, as a homeowner's mold problem that he was treating with lime. To live amid the smell of death as though nothing at all was wrong. This image, this moment, is arresting.

We describe an eighteen-month empirical investigation of three- and four-year-old children’s uses of technology at home, based on a survey of 346 families and 24 case studies. The findings are reported in the context of social commentators’ anxieties about the ways in which childhood is being transformed by technology. Although we report evidence of some parental disquiet about the role of technology in children’s lives we illustrate some of the complexities in families’ attitudes to, and uses of, technology and conclude that it is not perceived by parents to be the threat to modern childhood that is claimed.

Born in Okinawa of Okinawan mothers and Filipino fathers, many Nisei who were brought up in the Philippines have returned to Okinawa as adults to seek economic mobility, acquire Japanese citizenship, and search for part of their roots. However, their mixed heritage, lack of proficiency in the Japanese language, and reliance on the US military bases for their livelihood put them in an ambivalent position in Okinawan society. Concerning the controversial US presence in Okinawa, the Nisei have ambivalent sentiments, which reflect their own uncertain position in Okinawan society, but this ambivalence also mirrors the conflicted views of other Okinawans.

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Estos estudios, que forman una serie de drafts, tienen, ante todo, una austera finalidad descriptiva que respeta los puntos de partida del autor y se proponen  volver a examinar críticamente la totalidad del libro, llamando la atención y, al mismo tiempo, respecto de los temas importantes de cara a su lectura para el interesado en las cuestiones de filosofía práctica. Desde ya, como todo comentario responsable, la serie completa de estos trabajos pretende estimular el contacto directo con la obra y servir de guía antes que reemplazar al texto. Esa acotada agenda ha definido la función y el alcance de tales estudios destinados a servir de carta de navegación y apropiada compañía de una obra tan notable como exigente, más por el tema que por el discurso mismo, que el autor se esfuerza por colocar al alcance del lector inteligente y dispuesto a instruirse.

Homes are essential contexts in which to understand how technologies are used and experienced. At the same time they hold substantial challenges for conducting research, exploring novel designs, and building understanding. In this paper we review approaches to studying the home, including recent innovations and issues that should guide further methodological reflection. We draw on the expertise of a large number of researchers experienced in studying technology in the home, who have formed a community to map the space of methods in use and share their experiences of the key issues faced in practice. Themes include utilising new technology as a source of data as well as an object of study, creating representations of home life that support discussion and reflection, revealing details of important yet routine or mundane activities, and supporting participation to overcome the complex ethical and privacy concerns inherent in the study of the home.

This chapter sets out to explore the notion of home, and the ways in which imaginaries of home inform some of the darkest moments of contemporary life.  People fleeing conflict are trying to find a safe space in which they can make a home,  those migrating are trying to make themselves at home in strange environments, those seeking out gay bars and nightclubs are seeking places to socialise in which they feel at home. Those transitioning across genders or maintaining gendered fluidity are seeking bodily appearances which signal possibilities of social interaction in which they, too, can feel at home.  In each of these examples home is imagined as a positive good, something central to people’s wellbeing.  But the imaginary of home can also be problematic. This chapter explores both the necessity and the dangers of the imaginary of home, and people’s assumptions that they are entitled to all aspects of it.  The dangers rest on a backwards-looking nostalgia for mythical communities. This informed support for both Brexit in the UK, Trump in the US and many right wing parties in Europe and beyond. It engenders hostility to difference.  The chapter  argues that homeplaces are central to wellbeing, but views the  building of homeplaces as a future directed project, not an act of  backwards looking nostalgia.

Migrants’ constructions of their domestic spaces, and their struggle to feel at home in both receiving and sending societies, are an emerging focus of research in migration studies. Housing issues are also a privileged observatory on their transnational social engagement, as well as on the changing boundaries of their membership and belonging. This article addresses the everyday bases of their home-making and house-building practices, drawing on a multi-sited ethnography of Ecuadorian migration to Italy. What can be inferred from the ways in which migrants inhabit their houses “here”, while typically investing in better housing arrangements “there”, as to their alignment towards either society? What do their housing-related practises suggest about the potential to feel locally and transnationally at home, given the structural constraints they are subject to? By tracing the meanings, enactments and locations of migrants’ home, I aim to advance the debate on home and migration in two respects: the persistent materiality which underlies the home experience, and the significance of migrants’ houses, particularly in sending societies, as a window on the mixed social consequences of migration.

who has kindly provided much valuable information in the form of interviews and family photographs about the site of displacement, is thanked with appreciation. Mr Dawie Malan, the subject librarian at the UNISA library, is thanked for his competent guidance to access the endless information sources available. The staff members of the Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology of UNISA are acknowledged for their help and input.

This chapter explore the ways in which twenty-first-century Britons of Caribbean heritage are revisiting the home in attempts to navigate the idea of home as a physical/ geographical space and home as a feeling. Focusing on the role women, I discuss (1) a problem with how one particular concept of home is universalised and applied to people whose lived experiences are not reflected within the parameters of that conception and, (2) a problem with the conflation of the core ideas entailed in the Western conception of home and the use of one to define the other in ways that negatively impact certain people’s experience of home. Ultimately, I claim, home for women, is a space in which the fight for freedom must crucially be waged.

In this paper, I aim to explore the ways in which Brian Friel, in representing the Irish diaspora through the individual experiences of Cass in The Loves of Cass McGuire (1966), addresses the spatial issues of the diasporic experiences of Irish women, especially the home of displacement in Ireland and the home of placement outside Ireland. Two versions and conceptualizations of home embodied respectively by the Irish patriarch at home and the migrant woman away from home confront with each other upon the return migration of the latter in this play. Therefore, The Loves of Cass McGuire stages intricate negotiations between the nationalized imaginary of home and the gendered identity of Irish women. Furthermore, as shown in this play, home not only is a private haven of homeliness but also becomes a public site of political contestation and identity formation. An unhomely/uncanny presence, returned women migrants, like Cass, eventually lapse into physical, psychological and social homelessness, and are forced to construct a homely home of their own away from the home of origin.