To be at Home : : House, Work, and Self in the Modern World / / ed. by James Williams, Felicitas Hentschke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2018 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Addlakha, Renu,; Algazi, Gadi,; Allina, Eric,; Barua, Rukmini,; Bicher, Anne-Katrin,; Bolotova, Alla,; Bruckermann, Charlotte,; Chalhoub, Sidney,; Dougnon, Isaie,; Drotbohm, Heike,; Ehmer, Josef,; Fontes, Paulo,; Fourchard, Laurent,; Griffiths, Anne,; Hentschke, Felicitas,; Houben, Vincent,; Hyslop, Jonathan,; Kremakova, Milena,; Li, Ju,; Lüdtke, Alf,; Maynes, Mary Jo,; Mohapatra, Prabhu,; Pinheiro, Cláudio,; Rao, Anupama,; Rockel, Stephen J.,; Sabean, David Warren,; Schmidt, Jürgen,; Sefalafala, Thabang,; Sinha, Nitin,; Spittler, Gerd,; Varma, Nitin,; Waltner, Ann,; Williams, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Strümpell, Christian,; Sunseri, Thaddeus,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (279 p.)

Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships. Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways people in different societies and historical periods strive to make and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval, displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work, the self and the world to explore people’s creativity, agency and labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts – if also often elusive – invoking places, persons, objects, emotions, values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the relations between houses, work and the self have transformed dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and modernity – and continue to change today.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section 1: Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds -- Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal (Dis)comfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses -- Hostel, Home, and ‘Life-Rhythm’ for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall -- Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children’s Lives in an IDP Camp -- Making Home in the Industrialized Russian Arctic -- Section 2: Houses, Work, and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles -- Constructing Middle-Class Milieus in Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Labor of Geselligkeit -- Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara -- Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe -- Experiences of Wagelessness and the Meaning of Wage Work in the Free State Goldfields, South Africa -- Spinning Yarn: The Changing Place of Girls’ Work in Chinese and European History -- Section 3: Construction, Demolition, Relocation -- Subaltern Urbanism, or Dwelling and the Unhoused: Histories of Housing in the United States and India -- Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe -- The Changing Faces of a Village: Italian Migrant Workers’ Families in Lorraine -- Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town -- Closed Constructions: The Apartheid Architecture of Migrant Hostels in Gauteng -- Section 4: The Power of Place: Space, Exclusions, Vulnerability -- The Naqab/Nagev, Israel: Rebuilding Demolished Homes -- Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities: Welfare ‘Homes’ in India -- Land as a Site for Creating a Home: A Cautionary Tale from Botswana -- Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies: The Coolie Pondok -- The Home and the World: Slavery and Domestic Labor in a Nineteenth-Century East African Caravan Town -- Section 5: Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory -- A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Work and Home in China -- A House for a Missing Self: Nostalgia for Slavery and Its Times in Machado de Assis’s Dom Casmurro -- From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer -- The Home and the World in Indian Folksongs of Marriage and Migration -- Section 6: Networks, Neighborhoods, Communities -- ‘The Land of Boarding Houses’: Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945–1970 -- The Enlarged Parlor? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900 -- Legacies of Housing in Ahmedabad’s Industrial East: The Chawl and the Slum -- ‘Refugees Welcome’: German Civil Society and the Day of Arrival of One Million Refugees -- Section 7: Being at Home in the World: Thinking with Houses and Homes -- Making Home on the High Seas: Bulgarian Seafarers between Ship and Shore -- Owning a Home in Bamako: To Be at Home after Death -- From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Portraits: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes -- Unhomely Afterlives: The Works and Lives of Rabindranath Tagore -- Reflections I -- Servant Testimonies and Anglo-Indian Homes in Nineteenth-Century India -- Reflections II -- On Homes, Work, and Personhood: An Interview with Prabhu Mohapatra -- On Photography and History: An Interview with Alf Lüdtke -- Reflections III -- Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphele’s A Bed Called Home -- Contributor Biographies -- Picture Credits -- Index