Building upon extensive literature on the concept of home, this article uses narrative interviews to argue that home can be (un)settled. The process of (un)settling home can occur in relation to various circumstances such as widowhood, ill health, or geopolitical changes. This article presents (un)settling home as a process constituted by three intertwined dimensions; practical and material, emotional, and temporal. This article explores how the Brexit process is (un)settling home for older British migrants, a population of lifestyle migrants, living in Spain. This geopolitical event has an ongoing destabilising and unsettling effect upon individual's sense of home and belonging. Brexit is a process experienced simultaneously by older British migrants living across the European Union. Consequently, this article provides useful insights into how these relatively privileged migrants negotiate an unprecedented shift in their status, their uncertain future as lifestyle migrants, and their understandings of home in this shifting geopolitical context.
Although the vehicle horn is a minimal audible unit for communication, we will show that its uses are impressively varied. Drawing upon a corpus of video recordings from dash-cams, we show how drivers use the horn for creating awareness; how they target particular vehicles; how they use it for warnings, for complaints and in instructing the seeing of an aspect of an ambiguous traffic object. The driver's use of the horn involves, firstly, their sounding it in recognisable relations to past, current and projected configurations of traffic on the road.Secondly, it involves drivers manipulating the vehicle horn in order to create sounds of shorter and longer durations which can then produce hearably distinct actions. Thirdly, and finally, the driver can use the horn as an initiating or responsive action in relation to the actions of other members of traffic. The data are from road users in Chennai, India.
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