Home av Alison (Queen Mary University of London UK) Blunt, Robyn (University of Sydney Australia) Dowling

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<P><I>Home</I> articulates a ¿critical geography of home¿ in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on ¿Home and the City¿ that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. </P><P>The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book¿s chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale ¿ house-as-home; the