Making and unmaking home in the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative research study of the experience of private rental tenants in Ireland

Changing socio-spatial definitions of sufficiency of home: evidence from London (UK) before and during the Covid-19 stay-at-home restrictions

“…While interactions with the space and objects of dwellings lend meaning to them, these interactions are shaped by and add to residents' ideas, identities, social relations, experiences and expectations. Homes are continuously made, remade and unmade in the life course of dwellings and people as their perceptions, relationships, and social and economic positions change (Baxter & Brickell, 2014;Byrne & Sassi, 2022;Devine-Wright et al, 2020).…”

“…Data were collected between June and August 2020, when strict Covid-19 restrictions were still in place. The timing of this data collection enabled a particular focus on how homes were used and experienced during the pandemic, when existing work, care, and domestic labour practices were severely disrupted, our relationships to home and the meanings of home were altered (Byrne, 2020;Devine-Wright et al, 2020), and issues of housing quality were exacerbated (Brown et al, 2020;Byrne & Sassi, 2022;Horne et al, 2020;Soaita, 2021). In this paper, our analysis complements and builds on the studies discussed in the preceding paragraph through its focus on how a range of residents of working age in London experience the spatiality and affordances of their dwellings, and on how these experiences were challenged in the Covid-19 pandemic (in particular in relation to household dynamics and home working practices).…”

Entramando cuerpos, hogares y territorios: exploraciones sobre el deshacer hogar de mujeres chaiteninas

“…Estudios recientes (Baxter y Brickell, 2014;Bertolani y Boccagni, 2021;Byrne y Sassi, 2022;Cheshire et al, 2019;Lancione, 2017;Nowicki, 2018;Paul, 2022) han criticado la fijación en la comprensión del hogar al priorizar el estudio en torno a cómo se crea un hogar. En palabras de Massey (1992), el hogar es una construcción abierta y en movimiento.…”

“…Recent studies (Baxter & Brickell, 2014;Bertolani & Boccagni, 2021;Byrne & Sassi, 2022;Cheshire et al, 2019;Lancione, 2017;Nowicki, 2018;Paul, 2022) have criticized the fixation on the understanding of home by prioritizing the studies around how a home is created. As expressed by Massey (1992), home is open, constructed out of movement.…”