Shared Housing, Shared Lives

Everyday Experiences Across the Lifecourse
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-367-35049-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Sociology

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.

Focusing on sharers in a wide variety of contexts and at all stages of the life course, Shared Housing, Shared Lives demonstrates how personal relationships are the key to whether shared living arrangements falter or flourish. Indeed, this book demonstrates how issues such as finances, domestic space and daily routines are all factors which can impact upon personal relationships and wider understandings of the home and privacy.

By directing attention towards people and relationships rather than bricks and mortar, Shared Housing, Shared Lives is essential reading for students and researchers in fields such as sociology, housing studies, social policy, cultural anthropology and demography, as well as for researchers and practitioners working in these areas

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heath, Sue

Davies, Katherine

Edwards, Gemma

Scicluna, Rachael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Shared housing in context

2. The challenges of shared living

3. Motivations for shared living

4. The economic and material organisation of shared housing

5. The spatial organisation of shared living

6. Time matters in shared living

7. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Pen portraits of research participants

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sue Heath is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester, UK
Katherine Davies is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield, UK
Gemma Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK
Rachael M Scicluna is a Lecturer in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK