An Anthropological Study of Hospitality

Touval, Amitai

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42049-3

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“…The growth of this particular hospitality practice, which sees homes and domestic spaces shared more efficiently, suggests a trajectory towards more sustainable ways of being (Luchs et al 2011). However, for hosts competing in this market and the sometimes-hostile online rating system (Touval 2017), thermal comfort and other everyday conveniences can become a priority for hosts hoping to ensure positive guest feedback and increase the desirability of their house. Whilst the case above suggests a desire to match expectations of comfort for house exchange and general hospitality rather than hosting, it is likely that such patterns of homemaking are increasing with significant impacts on household energy consumption through changed materials and procedures of practices.…”

Section: Home For Hospitality or House Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%

How the meanings of ‘home’ influence energy-consuming practices in domestic buildings

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The UK introduced carbon budgets in 2008, with an aim to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 compared with the 1990 levels. It has been argued that the 2015 Paris Agreement on limiting the global average temperature rise to ‘well below 2° C’ requires deeper and more rapid emission reductions than the current UK targets. Household energy consumption accounts for almost a third of total UK CO2 emissions in recent years. This paper explores drivers of high energy consumption in domestic buildings from a sociological practice perspective and through a lens of dominant meanings of ‘home’. Whilst the practice approach and meanings of home have been explored separately in the literature to understand household energy consumption, this paper adds new findings on the interaction between the meanings of home and the elements of practices. Results show the dominant meaning of home differs between householders; this in turn affects the materials and procedures of energy-consuming practices. For instance, if ‘home’ means ‘hospitality’, this changes the standard of comfort and convenience people perceive at home. Understanding how practices and meanings of the home intersect, provides new, much needed insights that could support policy change commensurate with more rapidly reducing CO2 emissions from domestic energy consumption.

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Section: Home For Hospitality or House Exchangementioning

confidence: 99%