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Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging

Keeping Culture

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  • © 2013

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Introduction: Dismantling Mantelpieces

  2. Pasts: History, Archive and Memory

  3. Presents: Ordering Identities, Things and Home

  4. Cultures of ‘Home’: Other Ways of Looking

  5. Conclusion: Culture, Clutter, Contemplation

  6. Epilogue: Encounter

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Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home.  

Reviews

Rachel Hurdley on Woman's Hour

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00yz54q#p00fgmhg

"Read it! If you have read it, read it again!" - David Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester UK

"Renovates everyday life ananlysis ... a tour de force." - David Inglis, Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff University, UK

    Rachel Hurdley

About the author

Rachel Hurdley is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK. Her research focuses on everyday relations between people, things, space and time, examining how identity, power and culture happen as small processes.

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