In distinction, the notion of ‘house’ emphasises the subjective sense of being rooted throughout the world. Both ‘house’ and ‘home’ exist simultaneously as bodily entities, subjective emotions, and as objects of varied discourses which search to shape, reinforce, or contest the varieties they take. ‘Home’ could refer extra to imaginary spaces, or to bodily practices somewhat than physical constructions, whereas homes, as sites of labour, battle, and rigidity, may be at times essentially unhomely. On a extra macro-level, anthropologists studying structure and concrete planning have highlighted that the fabric qualities of our environment work to shape our bodies, habits, and mobility consistent with broader social patterns (see Buchli 2013 for an overview). Following Bourdieu, they ask how houses impart explicit social understandings and roles, typically focusing less on particular person homes or properties, and extra on housing as a type of infrastructure (see Larkin 2013 for a review of infrastructural … Read More
