The Cultural Construction of Domestic Space in France and Great Britain

Chevalier, Sophie

doi:10.1086/337929

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“…Understandings of home are embedded in frameworks that territorialise space, and enable individuals and groups to make sense of themselves and claim rights of belonging. This strand draws attention to the importance of ideology in framing house designs and homemaking practices, including the collection and display of objects (Chevalier 2002; Woodward 2003). Attention is brought to how notionally private practices of homemaking are bound to wider politics of social relationships (Gorman‐Murray 2006a, 2008a; Noble 2002).…”

Section: Interpreting Home Mobility and Subjectivitymentioning

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“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

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Gorman‐Murray

2011

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Helping redress the dominance of metropolitan narratives upon which much literature on sexuality is framed, this article interprets the narrative told by a "white" 16-year-old man living in regional Australia. Our aim is to investigate the intersections of migration and homemaking in sexual subject formation. Finding a place to call "home" can be a complex process for young men born in regional Australia and not conforming to the social formations of a "normal guy". This young man's narrative expressively reveals the fluidity and spatiality inherent in processes of negotiating sexual subjectivities. His story provides telling insights into how migration and mobility change his understandings of home and of self by making possible a third-space configured by neither the gender norms of his hometown nor the "gay scene" in Sydney.

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Section: Interpreting Home Mobility and Subjectivitymentioning

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“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

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Gorman‐Murray

2011

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“…The table governs conventional spaces of sociability configured by such aspects as distance from it and the possibility of movement, how it is set, and even the kind of conversations it affords. It epitomizes greater or lesser formality (Chevalier ). Variations in both countries are marked by the social occasion as well as, very clearly, by class, while also soliciting more specific accounts of bodily experience.…”

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Habits and orders of everyday life: commensal adjustment in Anglo‐French couples

Darmon

Warde

2018

British Journal of Sociology

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This paper examines processes of habit reshuffling and change in different contexts of household formation, looking specifically at habits regarding eating and commensality. It is based on a study of 14 couples, each with one English and one French partner, half of whom live in France, half in England. We examine the interplay between partners, their determination to eat together as a couple, and the various 'orders' associated with their commensal pact (diets, routines, extra-marital commensality), both when they start as couples and as parents of young children. We draw on the specificity of cross-national couple experience to cast light on processes of adjustment - to one another, and to the new country of residence for the migrant partner. In particular, we explore the potential of notions of 'split' and 'solid' 'patrimonies of incorporated habits', 're-shuffling' of habits and dispositions, and 'habit memory', to characterize the dynamics of habits at play in each of the orders under scrutiny. Overall, the paper contributes to the analysis of habit as the 'stuff' of orders of everyday life.

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“…This process of reinterpretation as part of the construction of a personal world at home takes place within a specific social and cultural framework. My comparative study of France and Great Britain showed how similar objects or pieces of furniture were arranged differently, not just to suit individual taste, but also to satisfy shared cultural imperatives of spatial organization (Chevalier, 1995(Chevalier, , 1996(Chevalier, , 2002. The construction of a private world occurs at the intersection between the individual and society: that is to say, between the wish to express oneself and the need to signify that one belongs to a group.…”

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Turning commodities into presents

Chevalier

2014

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Mauss’s intention in writing The Gift was to refute the strong ideological opposition between gifts and market contracts which would have the one free, generous and social, the other obligatory, self-interested and individualistic. The ease and frequency with which purchased commodities in Western societies are converted into presents supports his view that the two forms overlap and are permeable, each combining freedom and obligation, individual personality and social constraint. Mass-produced commodities are used to build up the material culture of a private domestic universe in a social process of appropriation. Presents are compared here with inherited objects, purchased items and immaterial donations such as money, gift vouchers and wedding list subscriptions. In light of this comparison of ethnographic observations made in France and Britain, the distinction between gifts and commodities seems to blur and the boundary between them is easily crossed.

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The Cultural Construction of Domestic Space in France and Great Britain

Cited by 21 publications

References 2 publications

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

“It's About Time You Came Out”: Sexualities, Mobility and Home

Habits and orders of everyday life: commensal adjustment in Anglo‐French couples

Turning commodities into presents

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