Shared Housing, Shared Lives

Everyday Experiences Across the Lifecourse

AvSue Heath,Katherine Davies

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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Beskrivning

With a growing population, rising housing costs and housing providers struggling to meet demand for affordable accommodation, more and more people in the UK find themselves sharing their living spaces with people from outside of their families at some point in their lives.Focusing on sharers in a wide variety of contexts and at all stages of the life course, Shared Housing, Shared Lives demonstrates how personal relationships are the key to whether shared living arrangements falter or flourish. Indeed, this book demonstrates how issues such as finances, domestic space and daily routines are all factors which can impact upon personal relationships and wider understandings of the home and privacy. By directing attention towards people and relationships rather than bricks and mortar, Shared Housing, Shared Lives is essential reading for students and researchers in fields such as sociology, housing studies, social policy, cultural anthropology and demography, as well as for researchers and practitioners working in these areas

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2019-05-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Advances in Sociology
Antal sidor:152
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367350499

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Sue Heath is Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives, University of Manchester, UKKatherine Davies is Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield, UKGemma Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UKRachael M Scicluna is a Lecturer in the School of Anthropology and Conservation at the University of Kent, UK

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Shared Housing, Shared Lives provides important theoretical and ethnographic accounts of shared living arrangements, ranging from the familiar spare-room lodger, and multi-person house-share, to strong ideological commitment to values of collective living. In a climate of austerity, many more people in the UK find themselves sharing their homes and habits with housemates, and the authors of this book invite you to step inside the material spaces and social, sensory proximities of day-to-day sharing. At last, an incisive and nuanced analysis of shared housing. Dr Helen Jarvis, Reader in Social Geography, Newcastle University, UKWhile standard nuclear family households loom large in imaginings of contemporary domestic relations, not least among planners and policy makers, in recent years, sharing a home with strangers has become a more common experience. Across developed societies, supportive links between life-course transitions and ascent up a housing ladder have become increasingly fragile and movement, markedly non-linear, with this pattern exacerbated by recent economic crises. This book represents the most advanced and thorough analysis of the current conditions of sharing households. It builds on a deep contextual knowledge of the rise and conditions of contemporary sharers as well as important empirical insights from English cases.Professor Richard Ronald, Professor of Housing, Society and Space, Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsThis book is a key text for students and researchers alike who are interested in changes to access, consumption, forms and experiences of home. Tegan Bergan, Western Sydney University

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: Shared housing in context2. The challenges of shared living3. Motivations for shared living4. The economic and material organisation of shared housing5. The spatial organisation of shared living6. Time matters in shared living7. ConclusionAppendix 1: Pen portraits of research participantsBibliographyIndex