The Ambivalent Home
| Dates: | 31 October 2014 |
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| Times: | All day |
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| What is it: | Conferences |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | Adults |
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| Speaker: | Lynn Jamieson, Helen Jarvis, Luke Yates, Rachel Hurdley, Rachel Scicluna, Rosie Cox, Sue Heath |
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Changes in housing policy and welfare, rising house prices and continued high numbers of repossessions since the start of the financial crisis are dramatically reconfiguring housing tenure in Britain. Such social and economic shifts have a significant and politically loaded impact on everyday practices and routines, the ‘traditional’ family form and the spatial configuration of domestic space.
The Ambivalent Home will bring together scholars from a number of disciplines and methodological backgrounds who work on home, households and domestic space. Their work is wide-ranging and explores issues from practical household issues of consumption and decision-making to the more existential practices of home-making, identity and agentive power, object relations, paid domestic-labour, kin and non-kin relations across different contemporary household types. The conference aims to complement the already existing debate in the studies of home, while emphasising the multitude of realities and experiences. In juxtaposing these ideas and experiences we seek to draw out a deeper understanding of the domestic and its relationship with broader social issues, and to discuss the political implications of contemporary (re)configurations of home.
Speakers
Lynn Jamieson
Role: Professor of Sociology
Organisation: University of Edinburgh
Helen Jarvis
Role: Reader in Social Geography
Organisation: Newcastle University
Luke Yates
Role: Hallsworth Fellow
Organisation: University of Manchester
Rachel Hurdley
Role: Research Fellow
Organisation: Cardiff University
Rachel Scicluna
Role: Research Associate
Organisation: University of Manchester
Rosie Cox
Role: Reader in Geography and Gender Studies
Organisation: Birkbeck, University of London
Sue Heath
Role: Reader in Sociology
Organisation: University of Manchester
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