Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home.
Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture and confront the...
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and...
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and practice in the social sciences as well as design, this interdisciplinary text introduces a new design ethnography which offers unique and original approaches to research and intervention in the home.
Presenting a coherent theoretical and methodological framework for both ethnographers and designers, the authors examine 'hot' topics ranging from movements and mobilities to im/material environments, to digital culture and confront the...
Making Homes: Anthropology and Design is a strong addition to the emerging field of design anthropology. Based on the latest scholarship and...
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking at a broad spectrum of sexuality, gender and domesticity, it examines the many ways in which home is constructed, performed and experienced in relation to sexuality and gender. Considering identity issues such as age, class, ethnicity and gender, the authors problematize intimacy and question conventional ways of thinking about allegedly 'private' home space.
Comprehensive introductions to each of the book's three sections on Intimacy and...
Sexuality and Gender at Home is the first book to explore the meanings and experiences of home through the framework of sexuality. Looking a...
Long-held assumptions about women, home, food, and cooking have broken down. In an increasing number of households, women are either absent from or share domestic work more equally with men. At the same time, the visibility of men's cooking has increased through TV shows, books, blogs, and websites devoted to food and cooking. Terms like 'gastrosexual' have emerged to describe the growing male market for kitchenware and the growing prestige of public masculine foodwork.
Whilst scholars have begun to examine how men's increasing engagement with homemaking practices shapes masculine...
Long-held assumptions about women, home, food, and cooking have broken down. In an increasing number of households, women are either absent from or...
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and uncovers some of the complexities of homemaking for queer people.
Each of the book's six sections focuses on a different room or space inside the home. The journey starts with entryways, and continues through kitchens, living spaces, bedrooms, bathrooms, and finally, closets and studies. In each case up to three specialists bring their disciplinary expertise and queer perspectives to bear. The result is a fascinating collection of essays by...
Queering the Interior problematizes the familiar space of 'home'. It deploys a queer lens to view domestic interiors and conventions and unc...