Home is viewed as a space and place and associated with feelings, practices, and active states of being and moving in the world. This collection explores how we experience home and what home says about the selves we have become. This book is of interest and use to students and scholars in the fields of communication studies, cultural studies, performance studies, geography, gender studies, diaspora studies, and anthropology, and stands as an exemplar in qualitative, interpretive, critical, and auto-ethnographic methodology courses.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1: Tracing Home's Habits: Affective Rhythms, Devika Chawla
Chapter 2: Musing on Nomadism: Being and Becoming at Home on the Reindeer Range, Myrdene Anderson
Chapter 3: Be(Coming) Home, Jonathan Wyatt and Tessa Wyatt
Chapter 4: Childhood Homelessness: A Phenomenologial Reflection, Erik Garrett
Chapter 5: Home/less in Appalachia, Timothy Baird
Chapter 6: Motown Magic and Haunted Hollers: From One Othered America to Another, Rebecca Mercado Thornton
Chapter 7: The Exile Narratives, Amarado Rodriguez
Chapter 8: Men Making Home, Caryn Medved
Chapter 9: Scott and Helen Nearing and the Narrative of the American Homestead as Retreat, Jennifer Adams
Chapter 10: Trashing Home, Sean Gleason
Chapter 11: A Kind of Hush: Adoptee Diasporas and the Impossibility of Home, Anne M. Harris
Chapter 12: Bodies of Working Class Knowledge, Imaginative Mobilities, and Kinesthetic Homes, Stacy Holman Jones
Chapter 13: Finding the Backroads Home, Tessa W. Carr
Chapter 14: Becoming Home (Elsewhere): Patriarchy Du Jour and the Resilience of Privilege, Craig Gingrich-Philbrook
Conclusion: Home, Again, Stacy Holman Jones and Devika Chawla