Living with Things: Ridding, Accommodation, DwellingSean Kingston Publishing, 2007 - 193 من الصفحات Living with Things provides an account of consumption in terms of its centrality to our dwelling practices. Its focus is on the home, particularly on the movement of people and things within and through it in everyday habitation. Here dwelling is seen as an activity, as doing things with and to the things to hand around us. Being 'at home' is achieved through living amongst things, as well as amongst people and other non-human presences, such as pets and gardens. Being at home is achieved through what we do with objects, the things that are acquired and stored, that linger around in our homes, sometimes for decades, and which we may eventually get rid of. These ordinary things make dwelling structures accommodating accommodations; they make them homes. Based primarily on a former coal-mining village in North-east England, this book explores practices of inhabitation, from moving in or being modernised, to the daily accommodation of sleep and children. It provides a demonstration of what happens to consumption research when it 'comes home' and is positioned not in sites of exchange but within the home and in households. |
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... never the focus of attention , divestment haunted them ; whilst enabling of second - hand exchange , divestment itself remained unexamined . One of the most fascinating aspects of the entire research process is that it is , of course ...
... never the focus of attention , divestment haunted them ; whilst enabling of second - hand exchange , divestment itself remained unexamined . One of the most fascinating aspects of the entire research process is that it is , of course ...
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... never lived on Wear Road . For three of the six households living on the Rivers , I never really got beyond the social conventions of visiting . Here , though I visited frequently – usually at least once a fortnight - I would be given a ...
... never lived on Wear Road . For three of the six households living on the Rivers , I never really got beyond the social conventions of visiting . Here , though I visited frequently – usually at least once a fortnight - I would be given a ...
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... never wore them , only wore them once indoors . Nicky : Why didn't you take them back ? Ted : Couldn't be bothered . June : They were in a sale - not only that , he would put them on with his socks [ laughter ] , so they were never ...
... never wore them , only wore them once indoors . Nicky : Why didn't you take them back ? Ted : Couldn't be bothered . June : They were in a sale - not only that , he would put them on with his socks [ laughter ] , so they were never ...
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From researching ridding to living with things | 1 |
Moving in | 34 |
Being modernised | 56 |
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