To Be at Home: House, Work, and Self in the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9783110579871 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 301 str.

James Williams; Felicitas Hentschke

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To Be at Home: House, Work and Self in the Modern World

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Mamphela Ramphele

Preface

Andreas Eckert

Introduction: To Be at Home-House, Work and Self in the Modern World

Felicitas Hentschke and James Williams

1. Homes and Mobility: Borders, Boundaries, Thresholds

Shoes Painfully Small: Material and Maternal Discomfort in Cape Verdean Remittance Houses

Heike Drotbohm

Hostel, Home and 'Life-Rhythm' for African Workers behind the Berlin Wall

Eric Allina

From Forecastle to Folk Club: The Homeless Seafarer

Jonathan Hyslop

Kinship and Displacement in Post-War Liberia: Children's Lives in an IDP Camp

James Williams

2. HOUSES, WORK and Everyday Life: Rhythms, Ruptures, Cycles

Constructing Nineteenth-Century Middle Class Milieus: The Labour of Geselligkeit

David Warren Sabean

Home-Making among the Kel Ewey Tuareg in the Sahara

Gerd Spittler

Living in Homes, but What Kinds and Whose? Single Young People in Nineteenth-Century Central Europe

Josef Ehmer

The Place of Work and Workplace in Girls' Identities in Chinese and European History

Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner

+ Thabang Sefalafala

3. Construction, Demolition, Relocation

Evicted in Dar es Salaam: From Tanganyika Packers to Uptown Kawe

Thaddeus Sunseri

"Build us a Church and We'll Stay!": Italian Migrant Workers in Lorraine

Felicitas Hentschke

Remaking Homes and Reproducing Inequalities in an Eastern Indian Steel Town

Christian Strümpell

+ Alla Bolotova

4. THE POWER of PLACE: SPACE, EXCLUSIONS, Vulnerability

Homes and Colonial Violence: The Coolie Pondok

Vincent Houben

Public-Private Continuities and Alternate Domesticities

Renu Addlakha

Subaltern Urbanism, Or Dwelling and the Unhoused

Anupama Rao

+ Anne-Katrin Bicher

5. Houses and Selves: Nostalgia, Imagination, Memory

Where I Rest my Sea Legs? Bulgarian Seafarers between the Home and the Ship

Milena Kremakova

The Home and the Hearth: Poetic Imagination and Bhojpuriya Women

Nitin Sinha

A Woman and a Nation: A Story of Job and Home in China

Ju Li

+ Sidney Chalhoub

6. HOMES AND STYLE: AESTHETICS, POETICS, ETHICS

+ Jan Grill

+ Steven Rockell

+ Nitin Varma

7. Networks, Neighbourhoods, Communities

The Enlarged Parlour? Structures and Varieties of German Working-Class Housing around 1900

Jürgen Schmidt

The Chawl and the Slum: The Transformation of Housing in Ahmedabad's Industrial East

Rukmini Barua

"Land of Boarding Houses": Migrant Workers and Collective Dwellings in São Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1970

Paulo Fontes

The Political Work of Home-Making by Refugees and Civil Society in Berlin

Fazila Bhimji

8. BEING AT HOME IN THE WORLD: Thinking with Houses and Homes

The Importance of Owning a Home in Bamako, or Life after Death

Isaie Dougnon

From Ancestral Tablets to Patriotic Snapshots: Remembering Kinship in Rural Chinese Homes

Charlotte Bruckermann

Unhomely Afterlives: Reading Life-Phases through Phases of Afterlife

Claudio Pinheiro

+ Maria José de Abreu

REFLECTIONS

On Homes, Work and Personhood

Prabhu Mohapatra

On Photography and History

Alf Lüdtke

On Why Homes Still Matter: Thoughts on Mamphela Ramphela's A Bed Called Home: Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

Frederick Cooper

Contributor Biographies

Photography Credits

Index

O autorze

Felicitas Hentschke, Humboldt University James Williams, Zayed University