TY  - BOOK
AU  - Margarethe Kusenbach
AU  - Krista E. Paulsen
PY  - 2013
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653035605
TI  - Home
T2  - International Perspectives on Culture, Identity, and Belonging
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-03560-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1045838
N2  - This book presents fourteen original contributions by authors examining the importance of dwellings and local communities in people’s everyday lives. Through qualitative research conducted in North America and Europe, the volume explores the ways in which home is created both ideally and practically, at levels ranging from individual housing units to neighborhoods and public spaces. Even when the circumstances of making one’s home deviate from cultural ideals – for instance, in crowded, institutional, or stigmatized housing contexts, in disadvantaged or transient neighborhoods, or when one has no permanent dwelling at all – the authors illuminate how experiences and practices of home are central to what it means to be human.
KW  - Housing, Urban Life, Neighborhood, Community, Homelessness, Assisted Living, Mobile Home Communities, Home Ownership
LA  - English
ER  -