For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures

Boccagni, Paolo; Kusenbach, Margarethe

doi:10.1177/0011392120927776

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“…Rather than a fixed location, home is a fluid place that supports identities (Hooks, 1990). Drawing on an understanding of home as both constituted through and constituting a public debate (Blunt & Dowling, 2006; Boccagni & Kusenbach, 2020), home can be understood as both physical and special as well as emotional (Boccagni & Kusenbach, 2020; Massey & Massey, 2005ma; Rubenstein, 2001). Our discussion focuses here on the emotional aspects of home.…”

Section: Emotional Boundaries Of Homementioning

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“…Viewed from the sociological perspective, home as a private sanctuary lies in contrast to the public space, which might carry unexpected dangers, harm, and suffering. However, for an individual and groups to feel “at home” or to “make home” involves the access to rights and resources, which are not distributed equally among all members of the society (Boccagni & Kusenbach, 2020). To feel at home is thus an intersectional experience, which involves relational, cultural, structural, and above all emotional aspects that this article discusses more in detail while foregrounding the concept of intimacy.…”

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Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic

Durnová

Mohammadi

2021

Sociology Compass

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While much of the sociological scholarship on intimacy has been understood in the normative sense of foregrounding and supporting human closeness, this article points to the role intimacy has as a sociological concept to better understand regulatory ties between the subject and the institution. While subject and institution are treated by modernity as distinct entities, separated by the boundary between private and the public, the article elucidates their mutual engagements by reviewing the work on intimacy in the sociology of emotions. Discussing the scholarship on intimacy from this perspective enables us to understand private suffering as a social problem linked to the collective recognition of subjective feelings. To illustrate the point, the article briefly reflects the public discourse on home upended by world‐wide stay‐at‐home orders to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019. While this article neither analyzes these orders, nor judges their legitimacy, it takes the particular situation as a chance to review the sociological discussion on the emotional boundaries of home, foregrounding the concept of intimacy. Intimacy is presented as a key sociological category for understanding collective recognition of people's emotions, which impacts the way emotions are seen as relevant and legitimate in public discussions of social problems.

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Section: Emotional Boundaries Of Homementioning

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Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic

Durnová

Mohammadi

2021

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“…Home, sociologically, stands not only for one or more distinctive places, but also for a meaningful social relationship being enacted with(in) them—with all of the aggregate consequences in inter‐group relations and societally (Boccagni & Kusenbach, 2020; Dovey, 1985; Kusenbach & Paulsen, 2013). As a social experience, home is based on a tentative and emplaced attribution of certain emotions to specific socio‐spatial settings.…”

Section: Beyond the Domestic: Home In The Public As A Category Of Analysis And Practicementioning

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Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”

Boccagni

Duyvendak

2021

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This article reviews the emerging literature on the negotiation of home‐related feelings, claims, and practices in the public urban sphere, under the rubric of homemaking in the public. This contributes to a better sociological understanding of home and illuminates long‐debated societal questions such as the interaction between majority and minority groups and the shifting boundaries between what is (regarded as) public or private. While home has traditionally been understood as a private and domestic matter, it also has a major public significance. As a category of analysis, it reveals how supposedly domestic attitudes, routines, and practices are scaled up into the public domain. As a category of practice, it is a powerful discursive resource for contentious politics in the extra‐domestic domain. Who is entitled and legitimated to claim a public space as “home”, and what this implies for inter‐group categorizations and relations, are questions that deserve original and comparative analysis in sociology. Processes of domestication of the public sphere, of mutual interaction between public and private life realms, and of claims‐making on various scales can be fruitfully revisited along these lines, by advancing an original research agenda on the ways of framing, feeling and claiming public space as home.

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“…Our sense of home depends on the meaningful relationships we have developed with other people, family members who share the same space, neighbors, and other locals. Home thus means a significant relational engagement, reflecting need and desire to attach a sense of security, familiarity, and control to one's life circumstances (Boccagni & Kusenbach, 2020: 297). Continuity through a shared home is relational and links to socio‐spatial dimension of identity.…”

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Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities

Moskal

Sime

2021

Global Networks

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Since the 2016 European Union referendum, young European migrants living in Britain have faced growing exposure to social exclusion and insecurities over their future. The Brexit process has not only changed their rights, but has also increased their experiences of xenophobia and discrimination. In this context, we consider it timely to focus on young EU nationals’ processes of identification and (re)constructions of their identities while they negotiate the multiple challenges posed by geopolitical transformations. The social constructionist research with young migrants shows that they increasingly experience their identities as fluid, with relationships that move between proximity and distance. Our findings from focus groups with 108 young people aged 12–18 years born in Central and Eastern European countries and case studies of 20 families support this perspective. The analysis documents young people's agency and efforts to negotiate identity as a process of becoming in the context of change and uncertainty. To understand how young people from a migrant background navigate individual and collective identities, the article offers an explanatory framework that highlights their need for familiarity, continuity, and control over their lives, necessary to maintain a sense of home and belonging.

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For a comparative sociology of home: Relationships, cultures, structures

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic

Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic

Homemaking in the public. On the scales and stakes of framing, feeling, and claiming extra‐domestic space as “home”

Young Europeans in Brexit Britain: Unsettling identities

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