To be at home : house, work, and self in the modern world /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2018]
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| Edition: | 1. |
| Series: | Work in global and historical perspective ;
Volume 5. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 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
- 3c. 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 Strumpell
- + 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
- Jurgen 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 Sao 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 Jose de Abreu
- REFLECTIONS
- On Homes, Work and Personhood
- Prabhu Mohapatra
- On Photography and History
- Alf Ludtke
- 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.