The first Canadian collection of its kind, Sociology of Home draws on sociological approaches to family, urban and rural communities, and migration and immigration to discuss the idea of “home”—an intensely personal concept that is, in its varying iterations, bound to larger economic and political systems.
Moving from private homemaking to community building and political ecology, authors investigate home as a constructed space within the context of a diverse set of cultural, political, built, and natural landscapes that ground Canadian experiences. This comprehensive introductory reader explores a diversity of homes and homemaking and is an important contribution to the sociological studies of home, family, environment, gender, and social inequality.
FEATURES:
looks at geographic contexts across Canada, including Vancouver, St. John’s, and the North
includes contributions from gendered, class-based, racialized, and Indigenous perspectives
Chapter 1: Living the Domestic Interior: Seven Characters in Search of Home in Vancouver, 2008–2010 Kathy Mezei, with Margaret Archibald, Patrick Chan, Emily Fedoruk, Kay
Higgins, Fran Moore, and Jillian Povarchook
Chapter 2: Mundane Technology in Non-Western Contexts: Wall-as-Tool Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Chapter 3: Condo: The New Structure of Housing Alan O’Connor
Chapter 4: Private Suburban Home: The Phantasmagoric Interior and the Ghostly Individual Ondine Park
PART TWO: NOT AT HOME: HOMEMAKING ON THE MARGINS
Chapter 5: At the Threshold: Domesticity and Victoria’s Chinese Rescue Home, 1886–1923 Shelly Ikebuchi
Chapter 6: Negotiating Family Relationships in the “Home”: Examining Constructions of Home for Youth-in-care in Greater Victoria Kate Butler
Chapter 7: Low Income Lone Mothers and “Home”: The Importance of Social Relations Amber Gazso
Chapter 8: Lacking the Safeguards of Home: Experiences of Youth Homelessness Jennifer L. Robinson
PART THREE: HOME BEYOND HOME: NEIGHBOURHOOD AND COMMUNITY
Chapter 9: Home is More than a Shelter: The Experience of Housing Space and the Processes of Exclusion Renaud Goyer
Chapter 10: Outside of the Planners’ Gaze: Community and Space in the Centre of St. John’s, Newfoundland, 1945 to 1966 John Phyne and Christine Knott
Chapter 11: Car Free Day! Urban Homemaking Projects and the Neighbourhood Politics of Home Joseph G. Moore
Chapter 12: Seasonal Tiny House Living, Simplicity, and Perceptions of Authenticity Tracey Harris
Conclusions: Homemaking and a Future for the Sociology of Home
Contributor Biographies
Biography
Gillian Anderson is a Professor of Sociology at Vancouver Island University.
Joseph Moore is a Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Douglas College. He has research interests in environmental sociology, urban sociology, and social movements.
Laura Suski is a Professor of Sociology, Liberal Studies, and Global Studies at Vancouver Island University.
“This is a wonderful, very diverse yet coherent collection of essays dealing with home in Canada. It deserves a wide readership given its broad multi-scalar scope … Even though the focus is on home in Canada, the importance of the book transcends the Canadian borders: these theoretically well-embedded articles speak to all of us who think that home matters.” — Jan Willem Duyvendak, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, and author of The Politics of Home
“Sociology of Home draws us a map of the buried treasure lying hidden in the work of many Canadian sociologists. Follow the map for long enough … and it takes us right back to home. As the editors and collected authors of the volume reveal, home is an enormous conceptual treasure chest that’s clearly worth digging up and examining closely within the discipline.” — Nathanael Lauster, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of British Columbia, and author of The Death and Life of the Single-Family House
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