Homes in Transformation: Dwelling, Moving, Belonging

摘要

The subject of this anthology is the ambiguous and fluid notion of 'home'; the Finnish editors, art historian Hanna Johansson and gender studies scholar Kirsi Saarikangas, discuss home as another 'skin' (p. 9). They have brought together a broad multi-disciplinary range of writers from gender studies, cultural and social anthropology, psychology, sociology, art history, social policy, art practice, media studies and philosophy. The concept of home is seen here as a spatially open structure that changes over time, rather than something demarcated and fixed. Home is explored as an idea and locus in a range of contexts and as a site of daily familial life, although the perception and configurations of 'family' vary.