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Author:   Margarethe Kusenbach ,  Krista E. Paulsen
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9783631620090

ISBN 10:   3631620098
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   12 September 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Margarethe Kusenbach/Krista E. Paulsen: Home: An Introduction – Krista E. Paulsen: Modeling Home: Ideals of Residential Life in Builders’ Show Houses – Elizabeth Strom/Susan Greenbaum: Still the «American Dream»? Views of Home Ownership in the Wake of the Foreclosure Crisis – Kurt Borchard: Homelessness and Conceptions of Home – Bia Gayotto: Somewhere In Between Chicago – David Wästerfors: Fragments of Home in Youth Care Institutions – Carol A. B. Warren/Kristine N. Williams: Displaced: Old People in Assisted Living – Jane Zawisca: A Home Not One’s Own: Hoe Young Russians Living with Extended Family Negotiate Space – Nathanael Lauster: «Kinda Just a Home I Guess»: Toward Theorizing the Making of Home in Vancouver – Margarethe Kusenbach: Place Feelings and Life Stories in Florida Mobile Home Communities – Paul Watt: Community and Belonging in a London Suburb: A Study of Incomers – Debbie Humphry: Inside Out: A Visual Investigation of Belonging in a London Neighborhood – Gabriela B. Christmann: Belonging and Home: The Perspective of Urban Pioneers in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods – Saskia Binken/Talja Blokland: Everyday Encounters and Belonging in Public Spaces: Findings from Rotterdam and Utrecht.

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Margarethe Kusenbach is Associate Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Sociology at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She has published numerous articles and chapters on neighborhood, community, emotions, and disasters. Issues of home and belonging, social marginality, and sustainability are central to her current research. Krista E. Paulsen is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of North Florida. She has published widely on culture and change in urban places, and the human experience of cities. Her current work examines the creation and persistence of urban and suburban neighborhoods.

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