Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK

ISBN-13: 9780367774837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str.

Rosie Cox

Opis

This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context.

Spis treści

1 Introduction; 2 Making homes; 3 Working with Materiality; 4 Doing it Yourself; 5 Not Doing it Yourself; 6 Home improvement and national identity; 7 Materiality, inequality and the homeyness of home; 8 Conclusion; Bibliogrpahy

O autorze

Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.