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Author/EditorBlunt, Alison (Queen Mary University of (Author)
Dowling, Robyn (University of Sydney, Au (Author)
ISBN: 9780367347284
Pub Date31/05/2022
BindingPaperback
Pages346
Edition2nd Ed
Dimensions (mm)216(h) * 138(w)
The significantly revised and updated second edition articulates a 'critical geography of home' in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world.
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The only text available that can be used as a productive introduction and framework for teaching, learning about and researching home.
Written in a manner that is well received and accessible to undergraduates, yet also contains sophisticated ideas for researchers.
New edition will retain and further develop its core argument about a critical geography of home
It will significantly update the references, examples, research boxes and illustrations in each chapter, critically engaging with the wide cross-disciplinary range of research in this field since its publication.
The second edition will address existing and new themes in greater depth, including home and temporality, the 'un-making' of home, home beyond the West, and home and religion.
It will also include a new chapter on 'Home and the city,'
New research boxes throughout the book will highlight recent and ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research on home. A new cover image will better reflect the book's content and make it clear that it is a second edition.

The only text available that can be used as a productive introduction and framework for teaching, learning about and researching home.
Written in a manner that is well received and accessible to undergraduates, yet also contains sophisticated ideas for researchers.
New edition will retain and further develop its core argument about a critical geography of home
It will significantly update the references, examples, research boxes and illustrations in each chapter, critically engaging with the wide cross-disciplinary range of research in this field since its publication.
The second edition will address existing and new themes in greater depth, including home and temporality, the 'un-making' of home, home beyond the West, and home and religion.
It will also include a new chapter on 'Home and the city,'
New research boxes throughout the book will highlight recent and ongoing doctoral and postdoctoral research on home. A new cover image will better reflect the book's content and make it clear that it is a second edition.

Alison Blunt is Deputy Vice Principal for Impact (Culture, Civic, Community) and Professor of Geography at Queen Mary University of London. She is founding co-director of the Centre for Studies of Home, a partnership between Queen Mary and the Museum of the Home. Her research on home, migration, and the city has been funded by the AHRC, the ESRC, and The Leverhulme Trust. She is the academic lead on 'Stay Home Stories', a project funded by the AHRC as part of the UKRI rapid response to COVID-19. Robyn Dowling is Dean of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. She has an abiding interest in how people make home in cities and dwellings. Her current research focuses on urban governance responses to climate change, technological disruptions, and innovation.

1. Setting Up Home: An Introduction, 2. Researching Home, 3. Residence: House-As-Home, 4. Home and the City with Olivia Sheringham, 5. Home, Nation and Empire, 6. Home, Migration and Diaspora, 7. Leaving Home

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