ISBN:
9783110580136
,
9783110582765
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (304 pages)
Edition:
1
Series Statement:
Work in global and historical perspective Volume 5
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als To be at home : house, work, and self in the modern world
DDC:
306.85
Keywords:
Home Social aspects
;
Home Psychological aspects
;
Architecture and society
;
Wohnen
;
Internationaler Vergleich
;
Intersektionalität
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Ausgrenzung
;
Nachbarschaft
;
Alltag
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wohnen
;
Nachbarschaft
;
Alltag
;
Soziale Ungleichheit
;
Ausgrenzung
;
Intersektionalität
;
Internationaler Vergleich
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: To Be at Home: House, Work and Self in the Modern World -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Mamphela Ramphele -- Preface -- Andreas Eckert -- Introduction: To Be at Home-House, Work and Self in the Modern World -- Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams -- -- 1. Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds -- Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal Discomfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses -- Heike Drotbohm -- Hostel, Home and 'Life-Rhythm' for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall -- Eric Allina -- From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer -- Jonathan Hyslop -- Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children's Lives in an IDP Camp -- James Williams -- -- 2. HOUSES, WORK and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles -- Constructing Nineteenth-Century Middle Class Milieus: The Labour of Geselligkeit -- David Warren Sabean -- Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara -- Gerd Spittler --
Description / Table of Contents:
Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe -- Josef Ehmer -- The Place of Work and Workplace in Girls' Identities in Chinese and European History -- Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner -- + Thabang Sefalafala -- -- 3c. Construction, Demolition, Relocation -- Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe -- Thaddeus Sunseri -- "Build us a Church and We'll Stay!": Italian Migrant Workers in Lorraine -- Felicitas Hentschke -- Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town -- Christian Strumpell -- + Alla Bolotova -- -- 4. THE POWER of PLACE: SPACE, EXCLUSIONS, Vulnerability -- Homes and Colonial Violence: The Coolie Pondok -- Vincent Houben -- Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities -- Renu Addlakha -- Subaltern Urbanism, Or Dwelling and the Unhoused -- Anupama Rao -- + Anne-Katrin Bicher -- -- 5. Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory --
Description / Table of Contents:
Where I Rest my Sea Legs? Bulgarian Seafarers between the Home and the Ship -- Milena Kremakova -- The Home and the Hearth: Poetic Imagination and Bhojpuriya Women -- Nitin Sinha -- A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Job and Home in China -- Ju Li -- + Sidney Chalhoub -- -- 6. HOMES AND STYLE: AESTHETICS, POETICS, ETHICS -- + Jan Grill -- + Steven Rockell -- + Nitin Varma -- -- 7. Networks, Neighbourhoods, Communities -- The Enlarged Parlour? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 -- Jurgen Schmidt -- The Chawl and the Slum: The Transformation of Housing in Ahmedabad's Industrial East -- Rukmini Barua -- "Land of Boarding Houses": Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1970 -- Paulo Fontes -- The Political Work of Home-Making by Refugees and Civil Society in Berlin -- Fazila Bhimji -- -- 8. BEING AT HOME IN THE WORLD: Thinking with Houses and Homes -- The Importance of Owning a Home in Bamako, or Life after Death --
Description / Table of Contents:
Isaie Dougnon -- From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Snapshots: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes -- Charlotte Bruckermann -- Unhomely Afterlives: Reading Life-Phases through Phases of Afterlife -- Claudio Pinheiro -- + Maria Jose de Abreu -- -- REFLECTIONS -- On Homes, Work and Personhood -- Prabhu Mohapatra -- On Photography and History -- Alf Ludtke -- On Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphela's A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town -- Frederick Cooper -- Contributor Biographies -- Photography Credits -- Index
Note:
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