Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4742-3930-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 455 g

Reihe: Home

This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cox, Rosie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Australische und Pazifische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction; 2 Making homes; 3 Working with Materiality; 4 Doing it Yourself; 5 Not Doing it Yourself; 6 Home improvement and national identity; 7 Materiality, inequality and the homeyness of home; 8 Conclusion; Bibliogrpahy

Über Autor(innen)

Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.