Thinking Home

Sanja Bahun is Professor in Literature and Film at the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex, UK.Bojana Petric is Senior Lecturer at Birkbeck, University of London, UK.

"Thinking Home is an extraordinary collection of thought, emotion, and image depicting the most sacred, common, and elusive space in a human’s life – home. Through social science, humanities, fiction, art, and memoir, the chapters describe experiences that expand ‘home’ from a monolithic version of the idealized space into rooms where conflict, reconciliation, and self-actualization are formed through lived experiences in communities and out of communities in isolation. Highly recommended - Marc Roark, Savannah Law School, USAThe editors have gathered an interesting array of empirical and theoretical contributions, ranging across a wide spectrum of disciplines, which individually offer new and valuable insights. The editors' introductions to each theme , link chapters with the broader issues identified in their overall introduction and create a coherent framework to draw the diverse contributions together. - Ullrich Kockel, Heriot-Watt University, UKThinking Home is a brilliantly conceived volume which manages to bring together, seamlessly and cohesively, twelve distinct positions on the notion of home and its many derivatives: homeness, homelessness, home-making, homeland, homesickness, etc. It is a powerful collection of essays that investigates, and indeed thinks deeply of, the human experience of homeliness and unhomeliness and, at the same time, how our position vis-à-vis these concepts defines our very thought and speech. - Marinos Pourgouris, University of Cyprus, Cyprus"

• List of Figures Acknowledgments Notes on Editors Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction: Homing in on Home, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) Part One: Homeness and Home-Making Introduction to Part One, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 1. Anyone—Any Arthur, Sean or Stan: Home-making as Human Capacity and Individual Practice, Nigel Rapport (University of St. Andrews, UK) 2. Domestic Dislocation – When Home Is Not So Sweet, Safe Ground (charity, UK) 3. Home: Paradoxes, Complexities, and Vital Dynamism, Renos K. Papadopoulos (University of Essex, UK) 4. Strained Belonging and Claims to Home: Ancestors and Descendants of the New York African Burial Ground, Susan C. Pearce (East Carolina University, USA) 5. Harvesting Stories: Home and Communities (Art Project), Lily Hunter Green (artist, UK) Part Two: Home and Dispossession Introduction to Part Two, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 6.”He’s just a bum, but who ain’t?” The Mirror of Homelessness, Amy M.E. Morris (Cambridge University, UK) 7. Rogues, Vagabonds and Sturdy Beggars: Homelessness, Responsibility and Social Welfare Entitlement, Vivienne Ashley (Independent Scholar, UK) 8. Recalling Home: Farewell to the House in Petrínská Street (A Theatre Project), Biljana Golubovic and Dragan Dragin (artists, Czech Republic) 9. The Emotional Dimension of Trading on Home in Later Life: Experiences of Shame, Guilt and Pride’, Louise Overton (University of Birmingham, UK), Lorna Fox O’Mahony (University of Essex, UK), and Matthew Gibson (University of Birmingham, UK) Part Three: Languages of Home Introduction to Part Three, Sanja Bahun (University of Essex, UK) and Bojana Petric (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 10. The Romani Language: A Signpost to Home, Damian Le Bas (artist, UK) 11. Migration and Belonging in the Home Literacies of Mirpuri Families, Anthony Capstick (University of Reading, UK) 12. Language at Home: A Reclaimed Heritage, Susan Samata (University of Sheffield, UK) Index