"This original collection is the first to explore sociological analyses of home in Canada, drawing upon studies of family, urban and rural communities, and migration and immigration to interrogate the idea of home as a powerful site of identity, community, and belonging. The text examines how we conceive of home at the levels of personal homemaking, neighborhood community, and political ecology. The authors address the diversity of homes and lived experiences across Canada, from apartment dwellers in downtown Vancouver to a remote Inuit community in Nunavut. The edited collection looks at contemporary housing phenomena such as 'tiny homes' and condos, considers historical case studies, and includes chapters on youth homelessness and homemaking in marginalized communities."-- From by publisher description.
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
features work by new and established scholars
